As always, making jams and marmalade has a therapeutically soothing effect on my nerves, it calms me, enthralls me, and makes me focus on nothing but the
present, the slight bubbling of the jam as it starts to thicken into a rich, orange - yellow colour, with twirls of peach - scented perfume wrapping up the
kitchen as if it were a Christmas
gift.
Right after Grace - Marie had said her first words of the class, her friend and student of many years, Pat Bagge, came to the front of class and
presented Grace - Marie with a
gift box and card signed by about 100 of her students to celebrate her 20 years at the helm of Grace - Marie's
Kitchen.