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Suspended Panettone: the symbol of Christmas for those in need – Italian Cuisine

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Just like the suspended coffee in Naples, now in Milan the Suspended Panettone it has become a nice habit of the Christmas period. A solidarity initiative that returns promptly this year too, until December 20ththanks to which we will be able to buy the festive leavened dessert to have it delivered to those in need in 14 pastry shops (and 24 points of sale in total) in the city, who in turn will donate another one.

This year the initiative born thanks toPanettone Sospeso Association – and has always been sponsored by the Municipality of Milan – becomes even more ambitious with four new entries: the Milanese brand of Iginio Massari Alta Pasticceria (in Piazza Diaz), the Pasticceria DaMa Milano (in Città Studi), Sant Ambroeus (in Corso Matteotti) and Taveggia (in via Uberto Visconti di Modrone).

The recipients of the «Suspended Panettone

So far the association has donated 7,000 panettone to Third Sector organizations and associations responding to a real need. «Panettone is not just the Christmas dessert par excellence, they explain Gloria Ceresa and Stefano Citterio, creators and founders of the Panettone Sospeso Association. «It has a symbolic value because represents sharing. We know that poverty is increasing, even in the middle classes, and this year many families and many single people will experience an even more difficult Christmas due to all the problems linked to the cost of living. We are aware that a panettone is not decisive, but it can be a small attention that can give a moment of serenity to those who experience difficult situations and serious marginalization.

Recipients of the 2023 campaign will be the Enzo Jannacci Hospitality House, which the association has supported since the first edition in 2019; the Social Custodians of the Municipality of Milan (active in all nine municipalities); the QuBì Network, which aims to combat child poverty in Milan, and other entities that collaborate with the Municipality of Milan to provide assistance to people living on the streets.

How to donate a suspended panettone

Just donate purchase a panettone in the pastry shops involved and leave it there, so that it can then be delivered to the recipients. For every panettone left “pending”, the pastry shops will add another, thus doubling the actual donation. Anyone who doesn’t live in Milan will be able to support the Association and leave their contribution “remotely” through a donation on the website www.panettonesospeso.org: the money collected will then be “transformed” into panettoni. A virtual gesture that will become real solidarity.

These are the pastry shops where you can donate the “suspended panettone”:

1. Baunilla (piazza Alvar Aalto, corso Garibaldi 55, via Broletto 55, Corso Italia, 11)
2. Cake l’Hub – I Dolci del Paradiso (via Luigi Mengoni 3)
3. Davide Longoni (via Gerolamo Tiraboschi 19, via Fratelli Bronzetti 2, via Tertulliano 68, Mercato del Suffragio – piazza Santa Maria del Suffragio, Mercato Centrale, Contrada Govinda via Valpetrosa 5)
4. Iginio Massari Alta Pasticceria Gallery (piazza Armando Diaz 4)
5. Gelsomina (via Carlo Tenca 5 and via Fiamma 2)
6. Giacomo Pasticceria (via Pasquale Sottocorno 5)
7. Marlà (Corso Lodi 15)
8. Massimo 1970 (via Giuseppe Ripamonti 5)
9. DaMa Pastry Shop Milan (Via Pinturicchio 9)
10. Polenghi Angelo (via Alfonso Lamarmora, 31)
11. San Gregorio (via San Gregorio 1)
12. Sant Ambroeus (corso Giacomo Matteotti 7)
13. Taveggia Gamberini (via Uberto Visconti di Modrone 2)
14. Vergani (corso di Porta Romana 51 and via Mercadante 17)

For info and donations:
www.panettonesospeso.org
info@panettonesospeso.org

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Spending suspended: the charity initiative for Christmas – Italian Cuisine

Spending suspended: the charity initiative for Christmas


Have you ever heard of suspended spending? Here's what it is about and how you can participate in the various solidarity initiatives. For a peaceful Christmas for everyone

TO Christmas shopping rhymes with "suspended". In this period perhaps more than in others we feel the need to be supportive with those less fortunate than us. And among many charitable initiatives where we can participate there is the one, in fact, of suspended spending. It involves buying basic food items and donating them to those in need, leaving "a paid expense" to those who cannot afford it: an idea taken from the Campania custom of "Suspended coffee", when a coffee is paid for at the bar for the next customer. Between associations and supermarkets, there are several ways to make a suspended expense, all over Italy. The initiatives exploded last spring with the emergency COVID-19 and many have been extended to this day.

Spending suspended in shops and supermarkets in Rome's municipalities

TO Rome, the various municipalities have entered into agreements with small shops and supermarkets for the collection of basic necessities with points where citizens can donate part of their shopping. Food is collected by voluntary associations and distributed throughout the territory. At this link you can see, for example, the stores participating in the initiative in the Municipality I.

Spending suspended in Lombardy: you can donate food or money

In Lombardy the spesasospesa.org project, activated thanks to the collaboration between Terre des Hommes is Lombardy Food Bank, allows you to collect donations of money and food with a guarantee of transparency and traceability. Citizens in difficulty receive baskets with food items delivered by local non-profit organizations directly to their homes. Through the Regusto platform, companies, distribution chains and local producers can both donate surplus or expiring products and sell their products at discounted prices.

Spending suspended in supermarkets

Different supermarket chains support the suspended spending initiative. Esselunga customers, for example, can contribute a thousand Fidaty points to support the solidarity spending project to donate 15 euros of basic necessities to the most needy. Inside the supermarkets they can instead participate in the collection of foodstuffs such as tuna, canned meat, oil, legumes, peeled tomatoes, baby food, pasta and rice that will be donated to voluntary associations that will distribute them to those in need. . Carrefour offers suspended spending with Banco Alimentare: you can make a cash donation directly at the cash desk or donate basic necessities. Suspended purchases can also be made at various Coop points throughout the country.

Spending suspended by the farmer

Who does the shopping in the markets and in the farms of Campagna Amica di Coldiretti, spread throughout Italy, can decide to donate fruit, vegetables, flour, cheeses, meats or other foodstuffs made in Italy and at zero km that the farmers of Campagna Amica will go to deliver free of charge to needy families. It starts on Saturday 12 December from the Campagna Amica market in via San Teodoro 74 in Rome.

the farmer's suspended expense to help those in need – Italian Cuisine

the farmer's suspended expense to help those in need


An initiative of Campagna Amica by Coldiretti to donate a food pack of fruit, vegetables and other products at km 0 to families in difficulty

From suspended coffee to suspended meal, up to farmer's expense suspended. The latter is the proposal of the farmers of the circuit Coldiretti's Friend Campaign to combat the food emergency following the Coronavirus. The initiative is active from today, 31 March.

Expenditure suspended: a food package to be donated to the needy

How does it work? As explained by the association, citizens who receive shopping at home through the Campagna Amica markets and farms spread throughout Italy can donate a food package to families who in this period need it most. The restrictive measures to contain the contagion have caused, in fact, the suspension or loss of work of many people, increasing the number of those forced to ask for help for food.

What it consists of and to whom the farmer's expense is donated

The farmer's expense includes fruit, vegetables, flour, cheese, salami or other quality and made in Italy foodstuffs at zero km that the farmers of Campagna Amica will deliver free of charge to needy families in agreement with the Municipalities. Some destinations: a Milan packs save pantries will be delivered to some families in the neighborhood of public housing near the Porta Romana farmer's market; while a Rome fruit, vegetables, rice and pasta will be donated to the Little Sisters' home in Piazza San Pietro in Vinci; in Puglia the products of the farmers of the Campagna Amica Farmers Market in via Appia 226 a Toast they will be donated to the diocesan canteen of the poor in the cathedral parish.

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