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It is called Heart of Tinos and has slow-cooked lamb, artichoke spread and gruyere. C&C (Chicken with a cause – chicken with a purpose) will have chicken, caper mayonnaise and volaki, while P&P (Pork with a purpose – pork with a mission) will have pork, sun-dried tomato salve and Tinos kariki, the rare and special ripening cheese produced from Tinian cow’s milk. The truth is that if you want to set up a menu with local products, you have to be willing to experiment!
For a month
THE Panagiotis Andreadisa shipbuilder by profession, had both appetite and great ideas. The best? A pop-up canteen in Tinos for a good cause: supporting the island’s healthcare. The canteen will be set up at sunset on July 18 at Cardiani and by the sunset of August 18th, he aspires to make enough money to cover all the island’s residents for air freight but also to be bought ultrasound machine for the health center. As is known, Tinos today only has primary carewith the weather standing – especially in winter – as an obstacle to transporting patients to the mainland.
These problems are known to the locals and the…almost locals, like Panagiotis, who first got to know Tinos in ’99, at the age of 13, when “my parents bought a house and a field in Ysternion Bay, in the middle of nowhere then”. He, however, of course loved the island – how could it be otherwise – and has not left it any summer since. Father of two daughters now, who have also found their little homeland in Tinos, he wanted to give something back. Vehicle, cooking. “What else? The truth is, I love cooking and I’m a third generation male cook who cooks mostly at home every day.” says to “K”. “For some strange reason, don’t ask how and why, I always wanted to work in a high intensity kitchen environment. In a steakhouse, for example.” It was a good bet for him too to design a project in which profit has been decoupled from personal gain.
If €20,000 is raised, an air travel insurance policy will be purchased – If €40,000 is raised, an ultrasound will be purchased.
After study and creative collaboration with the team, he came up with a tight, high-quality menu, with four sandwiches and five cocktails based mainly on local products. Their cost will range from 9 to 11 euros – a direct offer from consumers to the health infrastructure of Tinos. OR T2T canteen (“from Tinos to Tinos”) will operate in the area of Kardiani in a privately owned space for one month, between 5-10 p.m. Will he manage to get the 60,000 euros needed to reach the big goal?
“Judging by how the Hive crash test went, the model can work effectively and produce tangible social impact,” says Mr. Andreadis. Refers to pop-up event of Kypseli on March 22where the “canteen” operated normally with volunteers and sold its products, generating 3,000 euros in revenue. According to the business plan, if 20,000 euros are collected, the insurance policy will be purchased, if 40,000 euros are collected, the ultrasound machine will be purchased, while if they reach 60,000 euros, both will be done.
Preparation
July is not that far away. Already the team is under steam. “At Easter, even my daughters cleaned artichokes!” he says himself. “They had to be cleaned and put in the oil so they would be ready when we needed them.” On their side they have the municipality of the island, a multitude of sponsors who have contributed both in money and in kind, artists who donated their designs to create merchandise, volunteers who will be at the point every sunset to serve the people, and above all producers of the island who embraced the effort.
“We won’t save the health of Tinos, we know that, but the point is to make a buzz, to make the issue heard, awareness is more important than money.”
