Kategorie: Canned Goods

Tinned food in Central and Eastern Europe is not a compromise, it is a category with its own standards, and the good ones are very good.

Beef in its own juice is the benchmark. Imperial and Dvorek both do it: meat, salt and its own gelatinous stock, nothing else, eaten straight with bread or turned into a meal with potatoes and onion. It keeps for years and it is the reason this shelf exists.

The fish side runs Baltic: Latvian smoked sprats in oil, the classic sprat sandwich tin, ABBA matjes herring from Sweden, Grebbestads ansjovis and Kalles creamed smoked roe. Zergut grape leaves stuffed with rice cover the vegetable end, ready to eat cold from the tin with lemon and yoghurt.

Sealed, shelf-stable and ready whenever you are — which is also why everything here ships anywhere in the United States.