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 January 1, 2023  Posted by at 7:23 pm Finance Tagged with: , , , , , ,


Nicolas Poussin A Dance to the Music of Time 1634-36

 

 

The Monastiraki Kitchen wanted to present the best Christmas dinner ever (until next Christmas) for our clients. The Big Feast. A meal for Kings and Queens. Partly because of our Automatic Earth readers’ donations, I think we got quite a ways there. Even if the dinner happened yesterday, December 31, instead of Christmas.

The Automatic Earth readers were responsible for buying €450 worth of steaks, meaning a good sized steak for 450 people (sometimes we make good deals). And we also bought tons of cookies, and charcoal, etc. Ask Filothei, she knows the details. I decided I’ll let the photos tell the story this time, not me. Here we go:

Apart from the usual food, and this time the steaks, Christmas at Monastiraki is always a time for gift bags. Hundreds of them. They contain lots of sweets, but also soaps, shampoo, warm socks and gloves etc. Very popular. We are so grateful to all those who contribute.

 

 

Really, lots of gift bags.

 

 

A crazy amount of sweets. Carloads.

 

 

And the steaks. Ever tried to prepare 450 of them?

 

 

It’s a lot.

 

 

Did I mention there were sweets? The bakers who donate these are saints. We are dealing with homeless people, for whom steaks and cakes and good chocolate are dreams. Well, Christmas is the time to make dreams come true.

 

 

And all this is dragged to the square by the crew.

 

 

Who then do the last preparations.

 

 

Yeah, Monastiraki Square is a bit magical at times.

 

 

And it’s also busy…

 

 

Before the food arrives. Gift bags! We have gift bags!

 

 

Yes. Popular.

 

 

The girl crew.

 

 

Did I mention we have sweets?

 

 

 

Thank you all soo much for making this possible. It counts. It makes a real difference. It’s a community effort. Even if you’re in Tennessee, you are part of that community.

I’ll end with the usual play:

 

 

 

Most of you will know the drill of this by now: any Paypal donations ending in $0.99 or $0.37 go straight to the Monastiraki kitchen, while other donations go to the Automatic Earth -which also badly needs them. (Note: a lot of Automatic Earth donations also end up at the kitchen).

I dislike few things more than asking people for money, even though the Automatic Earth now runs primarily on donations, and there’s some sweet justice in that as well, in depending on people’s appreciation of what we do, instead of ad revenues.

But I cannot do this on my own right now. The Monastiraki kitchen will realistically need about €1,500 per month (not all from my readers). I don’t have that to spare. So I’m calling on you. Unashamedly, because I know there is no reason to be ashamed of the cause.

I love all you people, and I’m sorry I can’t thank you all individually who have supported -and still do- the Monastiraki kitchen and the Automatic Earth all this time, and I ask you to keep on doing just that. The details for donations on Paypal and Patreon, for both causes, are in the top of the two sidebars of this site. Could not be much easier. If you’d rather send a check, go to our Store and Donations page. Bitcoin: 1HYLLUR2JFs24X1zTS4XbNJidGo2XNHiTT.

Love you. Thank you. This kitchen would not exist without you, these people would not get fed.

 

 


Monastiraki Square

 

 

 

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    Nicolas Poussin A Dance to the Music of Time 1634-36     The Monastiraki Kitchen wanted to present the best Christmas dinner ever (until nex
    [See the full post at: Automatic Earth in Athens – The Big Feast]

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    Susmarie108
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    BRAVO – congratulations to you and your team for producing The Big Feast. The food looks delicious and the gift bags were an extra sweet touch. Filling Monastiraki Square with JOY and kindness.

    The pictures tell the story, especially the ones of your team in action. The fact that this is a “pop-up” street kitchen that rolls out (on carts), daily – to serve whoever walks up is remarkable. The whole idea and the implementation blows my mind and fills my Heart with HOPE.

    LOVE to Ilargi and his teammates.

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    oxymoron
    Participant

    Thanks for showing those images of the good that is happening there. Community is critically important and you have reminded me of that.

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    Not daily, susmarie. Can’t see the logistics for that.

    #124858

    Beautiful.
    Your days must be 36 hours long.
    Happy New Year to all of you at TAE and the Monastiraki kitchen!

    #124868
    John Day
    Participant

    Thank You, ilargi,

    God’s work.
    When I’m employed again, I’ll be able to contribute again.
    ;-(

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    boblazar
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