JAM AND PSYCHOLOGY

There is a relation between time and jam. I told you why we choose the name of Lola’s Garden” en souvenir of the days my grandmother was making jams in the old kitchen full of the perfumes of the fruits cooking slowly in the big copper pot. There was also the ceremony of tasting the hot jam just ready and before filling the jars. I had the honor to write the labels when I became able to. With this good moments anchored in the memory, it is difficult to not like jam. The jam send back to the good but disappeared moments.

No, it’s not a picture of Lola with me, but an ad!

The psychologist explains also jam is a way to stop the time or to keep what disappear too rapidly, the fruits full of sun and juice. Making jam is almost an alchemic process to keep alive perishable things. We harvest the fruits end of spring and during summer, the nicest seasons of the year. We also preserve in the small jar these precious moments. At the instant we open the bottle and taste the jam, especially in winter, our memory recreates the lost happy moments of the past seasons. Jam, it is nostalgia in bottles.