The production of the candied cherry of the Luberon and the Monts de Vaucluse dates back to the High Middle Ages. It is said that the delicacy was offered to Popes Urban V and Clement VI who were sitting in Avignon and appreciated it very much. Later, in the XVIIth century, it had no trouble attracting the graces of Madame de Sévigné who spoke of Apt in one of her letters to her daughter, Madame de Grignan, as a « jam cauldron »….
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