Jams

The jams Europeans actually keep in the cupboard, which are mostly not the ones American shelves carry.

Lingonberry is the one to try first if it is new to you: sharp, faintly bitter, and the traditional partner to meatballs, potato pancakes and game rather than to toast. Felix and Gut & Günstig both do a wild version. Podravka rose hip spread is Croatian, tart and slightly floral. Imperiya varenye is the Russian style, whole berries suspended in a light syrup rather than set firm, meant to be spooned into tea as much as spread on bread.

Lowell covers the everyday: rhubarb and strawberry, and a multifruit marmalade in a 1.1 kg jar big enough to mean it. d'arbo has made Austrian fruit spreads since 1879. Maison Francis Miot comes from a house that has won France's best-jam prize. And Grafschafter Goldsaft is not a jam at all but German sugar-beet syrup, dark and treacly, which lives on bread all the same.

All shelf-stable, all shipping anywhere in the United States.