Marco Polo Raspberry Fruit Spread 368g (13oz)

Marco Polo Raspberry Fruit Spread is a raspberry jam in the Marco Polo specialty food brand format — a household-size raspberry preserve for the Balkan and Eastern European diaspora table, one of the most beloved jam flavors across the region where raspberry (malina) is grown in the highlands of Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, and Poland and made into jam in every household that has access to the fruit. Marco Polo is a North American specialty food brand producing the Eastern European pantry staples that the diaspora kitchen keeps for everyday use, including the jams and preserves that maintain the breakfast and baking traditions of Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and broadly Balkan households. Raspberry jam holds a specific emotional weight in the Balkan and Eastern European pantry: Serbia is one of the world's largest raspberry exporters, with the hills of western Serbia — around Arilje and Čačak — producing some of the finest raspberries on the continent, and the tradition of making malinov džem from fresh summer raspberries is deeply embedded in Serbian and Bosnian home-cooking culture, the jam that appears on every breakfast table alongside white bread and white cheese. Spread on bread or roll as the classic breakfast preserve that delivers the specific bright acidity and perfumed sweetness of raspberry, use as a filling for palačinke and palacsinta, use in linzer cookies and thumbprint pastries where raspberry jam is the traditional flavor, stir into plain yogurt for a fruit-sweetened breakfast, or buy as the Marco Polo Raspberry that provides the diaspora household with the malina jam flavor throughout the year.