Marmalade made by Taiwanese farmer Lin Wei-hsun (林韡勳) won a gold award at this year’s Dalemain World’s Original Marmalade Awards & Festival in Penrith, England.
The event is held every April at the Dalemain Mansion in the Lake District, whose spectacular natural scenery inspired leading Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The event draws nearly 3,000 to 4,000 entries from participants around the world, Lin, a second-time gold winner, wrote on Facebook on April 27.
Photo from Lin Wei-hsun’s Facebook page
While a standard spread in Taiwan, the making of marmalade is considered a big thing in the UK, Lin wrote, adding that the way the ingredients are sliced and prepared, the color and the taste are all factors in grading the jam.
The marmalades are also sorted into categories based on the ingredients they are made from.
Lin won a gold award for his “Green Tea Whiskey Kumquat Jam” in the Artisan Awards category.
Lin said he nearly emptied his savings doing research and tests to produce an award-winning product and traveling to the competition.
He said he hoped the government or other sponsors would consider subsidizing travel expenses in the future.
He added that he hoped his small jar of marmalade would help make Taiwan more visible on the international stage.
Congratulating Lin on his achievement, some netizens responded that he had helped bring prestige to Taiwan.
Others said that Lin’s short post did not fully encapsulate the difficulties he must have faced while researching how to produce the jar of award-winning marmalade and thanked him for putting up with the rigors of making such a product. Others asked where they can purchase the product.
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