Festival of jam in Moscow. Sweet fairs

Recently, a new cheerful and sweet holiday has appeared in Moscow. This is a summer jam festival. The holiday is still very young, it is held only for two years, which, however, does not prevent it from being the sweetest, fragrant and hospitable event of the hot season and collect a record number of guests. The jam festival in Moscow is an opportunity not only to enjoy a wide variety of sweets, but also to visit a number of interesting exhibitions and training master classes.

Festival of jam - time

The festival "Moscow Jam" debuted in August last year, continuing the remarkable tradition of the gastronomic fairs of the capital. This summer the organizers decided to continue the holiday and to please residents and guests of the capital with an abundance of tastes, flavors and entertainment. This year, the jam festival in Moscow was held from August 13 to 23.

The festival gathered in the capital culinary specialists from all over the world. In total, the festival was attended by producers from twelve countries and twenty-five regions of Russia, so that Muscovites could taste not only traditional berry and fruit jam, but also the most original overseas sweets cooked according to unusual recipes, for example, treats from cactus, fir cones or rose petals .

The main areas of the festival

Festive events cover the entire capital these days. Therefore, every lover of sweet can come to the festival of jam in Moscow - the area this summer stretched across all areas. There were 22 in total, of which thirteen were located in the central part of the city.

In total, more than two hundred retail and restaurant establishments - chalets - were placed in the capital, in which it was possible not only to buy, but also to try fragrant delicacies. Each site was given its name: "Apple Park", "Juicy Embankment", "Watermelon Square" and other, no less appetizing names.

At the same time, all of them prepared their surprises for the Muscovites. For example, the highlight of Tverskaya Square was a grandiose labyrinth designed on a watermelon theme. And on the Arbat colorful oriental bazaar, where they offered jam prepared from fragrant melon, dogwood and cherry plums.

Festival program 2015

Millions of residents and guests of the capital visited the festival of jam this summer, the program of which was surprisingly rich. Sweet fairs enjoyed amazing popularity. The main events took place at Pushkin Square. Here more than four thousand square meters were allocated for the holiday.

A considerable place was occupied by the fruit stadium stretching here, where both adults and small visitors of the festival were invited to play their favorite accustomed games in an unusual way. For example, play basketball watermelon or table tennis - plums. In addition, the first Moscow fruit games were held on the square. Guests of the sweet fair could compete in high-speed eating jam or sports dances.

The sites located in the districts were united in one fruit town. According to the idea of the organizers, every festival day was dedicated to a particular fetus, in honor of which one of the districts was named.

The main action of the sweet holiday was the premiere ballet show on the rollers. The production is based on the favorite for many fairy tales "Cipolino". Visiting it could have been all visited the festival of jam. The holiday was closed on August 23.

Abundance of various sweets

The main treat of the festival was, of course, jam. Golden-amber apple and sunny apricot, exotic from fir cones and cherished cherry. Stringing, sweet, dense - from one only the aroma the head is turned and there is a feeling of unearthly happiness. Yes, the jam festival in Moscow is a real paradise for sweet tooth.

In total for days of celebrations it has been sold about ten tons of fragrant dainty. However, the organizers promise that next year it will be even more.

For gourmets jam is prepared, prepared according to unusual recipes and from unusual ingredients. For example, from cacti, walnut or ginger. But in addition to jam here was something to eat. At the sweet fairs in abundance were presented oriental treats, all kinds of pastries, fragrant healing tea. A genuine culinary masterpiece was a giant apple pie weighing a quarter of a ton. The treat, the width of which reaches two meters, and the length is four, can taste not less than a thousand guests.

Not only jam

At the festival you could please yourself not only with sweets. During the holiday in the squares and boulevards there were many snack bars, where you could properly satisfy your hunger. For example, home-made sausages or roasted chestnuts are very popular .

On the closing day of the festival, the "Marathon lemonade" was organized, where it was offered to taste over a hundred varieties of refreshing fizzy drink.

And at the festival was presented to the amazing beauty of porcelain dishes. It is the one from which it is pleasant to drink tea with jam on long winter evenings, remembering the sunny fragrant summer.

How to have fun at the festival?

The organizers prepared for Muscovites a truly grandiose jam festival, where you could not only taste all kinds of this delicacy, but also be charged with a great mood for a whole year.

In addition to the already mentioned sports games and ballet on roller skates, the guests of the festival were offered a lot of other entertainments. At the end of the holidays for the visitors organized master classes from the chefs of famous culinary studios. Participate in them could anyone who attended the festival of jam. Guest reviews indicate that it was not only delicious, but also very instructive!

On the Kuznetsk bridge there is a channel of the Flower blue river, where you could make many beautiful pictures for memory. And at each fair there were organized performances of invited artists and musicians.

Art objects

For lovers of large installations and modern art objects, too, there was a lot of interesting. A giant symbol of the festival was established at all the venues - a jar with jam more than two meters high. Each of them can be called a real work of art. All banks are painted by masters from the capital's union of artists: they depict fruits and berries, flowers and enchanting alpine landscapes.

Also on the sites were installed large-scale installations. For example, a light watermelon more than ten meters high or an exposition of fruit and berry sculptures.

Festival of jam - an extravaganza of tastes and entertainment

The festival of jam in Moscow was a grandiose celebration for residents and guests of the capital. Each visitor could pamper himself with a delicious and fragrant jam and stock up a portion of the sunny summer. After all, it's so nice to open a jar with a sweet delicacy in the cold winter and again feel the sweetness of ripe berries and fruits. And entertainment and master classes have pleased both children and adults.

Organizers promise to continue the sweet tradition of holding a summer festival, and the guests have to wait for the next year and continue this wonderful, fragrant and delicious holiday.