The ice cream of the year 2025? It will be the Hallelujah flavour, to celebrate the Jubilee
A competition held during the Sigep-The Dolce World Expo will determine the recipe of taste that will be sponsored by the Vatican's Dicastery for Evangelisation and must be inspired by the concepts of peace, welcome and sharing
by E.Sg
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It is not yet known what it will taste like and who will have had the honour, as well as the skill, of creating it. But one already knows what the 'ice cream of the year' for 2025 will be. It will be called 'Hallelujah', it will be dedicated to the Jubilee and it will be featured on 24 March next, the day on which 'Ice Cream Day' is celebrated every year. It will certainly be a gluttony, but not a goliardance: Hallelujah will in fact have the patronage of the Vatican's Department for Evangelisation: "an acknowledgement that underlines the cultural and spiritual relevance of the event, which will bring pilgrims from all over the world to St. Peter's," reads the announcement that arrived at the 64th International Exhibition of Artisan Gelato, currently taking place at Longarone Fiere Dolomiti.
The official recipe for the Hallelujah keg will be decreed in a competition held during the Sigep-The Dolce World Expo, scheduled from 18 to 22 January 2025 in Rimini, Italy, when ice-cream makers from all over Europe will be called upon to compete "in creations inspired by a message of peace, welcome and sharing".
The Gelato Day celebrations ("the only food to which the European Parliament has dedicated a day since 2012," the organisers point out) will begin on Sunday 23 March with the offer of the flavour of the year to pilgrims, accompanied by a charity fundraiser in Piazza Pio XII, near St. Peter's. On 24 March, Hallelujah will instead be offered in all gelato shops taking part in Gelato Day, both in the original version according to the official recipe, and revisited by master gelato makers from all over Europe using ingredients and inspirations from their own territory.
