Spices & Seasonings

Livada Lovage — Serbian-pantry čorba secret. Dried selen leaves, the herb every Serbian grandmother adds to soup that the recipe never mentions and...

Magiya Vostoka Oregano — Russian-pantry dried herb. The small-jar oregano the Russian-diaspora kitchen keeps for the recipes the family has borrowe...

The packet for the punjene paprike pot. Aroma's stuffed-pepper blend — Serbian rice-and-meat seasoning calibrated for the kapija pepper the Balkans...

Vegeta Gourmet, the soup-mix variant. Heavier on dehydrated vegetables than the classic shake — built to dissolve into water and become broth in on...

The smell of rosemary on roasting meat was the smell of Sunday lunch at home. Livada makes these dried rosemary leaves, a Serbian herb, 20g (0.7oz)...

Vegeta Natur's salad shake — clean-label salata sprinkle. Sea salt + dehydrated tomato + onion + parsley + bell pepper, no MSG. Dust over sliced to...

Grandmother always had a jar of dried spearmint ready, whether it was for tea after dinner or to settle a stomach. This is Harmony Foods Spearmint,...

Cosmin's sausage blend — the cârnați seasoning. Romanian-tradition spice mix for fresh sausages: black pepper + garlic + paprika + savory + the sal...

The travel-jar Vegeta — the carry-on pour. The small format the diaspora cook tucks into a carry-on or sets next to the stove in a rental kitchen. ...

Sunday potatoes always got the same seasoning, sprinkled on before the pan went in the oven. Vegeta Natur makes this all-natural potato seasoning m...

Every mother back home had her own tin of meat seasoning she'd never fully explain, just a pinch here and there before the pan got hot. This is a s...

Cosmin's mici packet — the Romanian grill standard. Caraway + black pepper + thyme + garlic + sodium bicarbonate, calibrated for mititei the way Bu...

Livada Dill — Serbian-pantry pickle herb. Dried mirođija for the krastavci brine, the salmon roast, the sour-cream sauce that finishes potato salad...

The smell of Vegeta stirred into every soup pot is the smell of a Balkan kitchen, no matter whose grandmother is cooking. This is Vegeta Original s...

Podravka Vegeta Broth Cubes — Croatian Koprivnica bouillon. The Vegeta line in dissolve-in-water cube format. Drop one into a pot of boiling water ...

This is the seasoning packet stirred into ground beef before shaping it into ćevapi and pljeskavice for the grill. Aroma makes this ćevapi and hamb...

The packet for the sarma pot. Aroma's sarma blend — Serbian dehydrated vegetable + spice mix calibrated for the rice-meat-onion filling that goes i...

Vispak Tajna's small-kebab seasoning — the ćevap packet, Bosnian-pantry. Visoko-house spice blend with paprika + black pepper + dried garlic + the ...

Vispak Tajna's burek seasoning — the spice for the dough. Bosnian-pantry blend calibrated for meat-filled phyllo: black pepper + paprika + dried on...

Every mother back home had her own tin of meat seasoning she'd never fully explain, just a pinch here and there before the pan got hot. This is Mag...

Korean-style carrot salad turns up on nearly every spread across the former Soviet countries, and this little packet is what makes it taste right. ...

Smoked paprika like this is what turns a simple stew into something with real depth, a pinch stirred in near the end. Picantina grinds this natural...

Franck — Croatian sweet paprika, Zagreb-house ground. The mild crimson dust the Croatian kitchen has used for paprikash and ćevap garnish for gener...

Vispak's sweet paprika — Bosnian-pantry crimson. Visoko-recipe ground sweet pepper, calibrated for the gulaš and čorba the Sarajevo kitchen builds ...