"My grandmother used to say to me that if you turn your pots upside down once they are filled with hot jam, it creates a perfect seal. I tried it this week and it was nice to hear that plop sound as the jar opened."

Sandra
GERMANY

"Meandering through alleys of raspberry bushes, red and white currant plants, all oozing with fruit.... foraging in fertile strawberry beds for hidden treasure. Sun, soil, heat and the humming of bees. Then hours of sorting and mixing and .... waiting. All the senses condensed into a lustrous elixir of gustatory heaven. The breakfast of superheros."

Kate
UNITED KINGDOM

"My Romanian grandmother was both beautiful and graceful. I still feel that the meals she used to cook were the best I've ever had. I remember that she had special dishes for every month of the year and May was a time for her rose petal jam. She used to say that those roses always flowered right around my father's birthday."

Cristina
ROMANIA

"When I was a child, my grandma used to make jam every year at the beginning of school year, around September. She used to make plum and peach jams and sometimes added other fruits as well. My favourite snack at school was bread, butter and jam. Then my grandma died and I moved to Brazil. I never ate my favourite childhood snack again. It is great to relive those moments again now and it feels time to make bread, butter and jam again."

Szilvia
HUNGARY

"Since I was a child, my grandmother and I used to make amora (blackbberry) jam. Afterwards, we used to eat it with the cake. It was always such a family moment, altogether."

Vanessa
BRAZIL

"I still remember when my mom made me little sandwiches every morning by lovingly putting a generous film of strawberry jam or honey on them."

Catherine
BELGIUM

"I like many jams these days, but my favourite as a child was always plum. When I was young, I also loved the Romanian Easter sweet bread, Cozonac. Growing up, Easter was a time when my family was reunited and I would push my mother to do more and more plum jam... just to be sure that we had enough for all the guests and family members. Today, even without the Cozonac, when I taste plum jam I feel the people who are close to me."

Olimpia
ROMANIA

"I remember those mornings when I would wake up from the sound of wasps whirling at our kitchen and that special sweet smell of sugar and berries. I would run to my grandma and see her standing on a chair next to the stove with a huge spoon making a jam from the strawberries she grows in her garden. She always had to stand on a chair because she was too small for that huge pot. She would smile and let me try some sweet foam coming from the pot. I think there is nothing more tasty in the world than that foam of childhood and happiness."

Diana
SWEDEN