Spreads & Sweets

Va-Va Fig Extra Jam is a 580g jar of Macedonian-style high-fruit-content fig preserve from Va-Va Premium Foods — the Extra designation indicating a...

Plum jam next to a slab of kajmak on fresh bread is a breakfast plenty of diaspora kids grew up on. Takovo's plum jam is a Serbian fruit preserve, ...

Fig preserve like this is what grandmothers make every fall when the fig tree is finally ready, cooked down into a spread thick enough to hold a sp...

Whole cherry, light syrup. Danish Choice's cherry preserves keep the fruit whole in a Scandinavian-jam restraint that lets each cherry shine — on t...

Romania's sweetened chestnut puree from Răureni — slow-cooked chestnut into silky spread, ancestrally Romanian. Pale amber, nutty-mellow, the Bucha...

Strawberry jam on fresh bread was the smell of the kitchen table before school, the jar always in the same spot. This is Mühlhäuser strawberry jam,...

Raspberry jam was the jar saved for Sunday breakfast, sweeter and a little more special than the everyday one. This is Mühlhäuser raspberry jam, a ...

A jar of plum preserve on the breakfast table was the quiet start to the morning, spread thick on bread. Marco Polo's Plum Preserve comes from Marc...

Bosnian šljiva, home set. Extra's plum jam — orchard fruit cooked the home way, sweeter than pekmez and easier to spread. Fills buhtle, layers krem...

Bosnian winter tonic. Spektar's rosehip marmalade — wild šipak cooked to a glowing amber set, carrying the vitamin-C reputation Bosnian grandmother...

Russia's plum confiture from Traditsii Vkusa — slow-cooked plum preserve, dark-rich and lacquer-glossy. Thick-spreadable, plum-deep, the diaspora-R...

Plum jam was the taste of late-summer harvest, spread thick on morning bread. Vitaminka 1947 makes this Šljiva Džem (plum jam) po tradicionalnoj re...

Mixed fruit marmalade on morning toast was a taste straight from grandmother's pantry shelf. Vitaminka 1947 makes this Miješana Marmelada (mixed ma...

Jars of homemade jam lined grandmother's pantry shelf every autumn, drenjak (cornelian cherry) among the tartest and most prized. This is Vitaminka...

Magiun simmering for hours in a copper pot until it turned almost black was how grandmothers stretched a plum harvest into a whole winter of breakf...

Gem de gutui, slow-cooked. Livada's quince jam — Romanian orchard fruit reduced to a deep amber set, 100% gutui with no apple or grape filler. The ...

Marco Polo fig preserve — slow-cooked fig in syrup, honey-amber and fruit-soft. Glossy-tender, fig-deep, the diaspora-pantry sweet-jar standard. Sp...

Marco Polo jars have sat on diaspora pantry shelves since around 1980, an American company that kept making preserves the old way. This is their So...

Marco Polo Peach Preserve is a 368g jar of sweet peach fruit preserve — tender, sun-ripe peach preserved in the jam format, with a colour that runs...

Airborne Manuka Multifloral 50+ — New Zealand monofloral nectar, slow-set and herbal-medicinal at active-grade tier. Dark amber, savory-deep, the w...

Hungary's flower honey from Bende — wildflower nectar gathered from Hungarian apiaries, deep amber and slow-set. Multi-floral, herb-tinged, the Hun...

Bende's Hungarian acacia honey in the family-host jar — pale gold, clear, the Hungarian apiary specialty. Mild-floral, nectar-bright, slow-set. Sti...

Germany's Langnese wildflower honey in the everyday pour — Black Forest apiary nectar, deep amber and slow-set. Multi-floral, herb-deep, the German...

The Flotte Biene honey bear on the breakfast table was as familiar a sight as the bread basket itself growing up. Langnese, established in 1927, bl...