{"id":1958,"date":"2021-02-23T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2021-02-23T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:36:00","slug":"sanremo-bakery-founder-natale-bozzo-dies-after-contracting-covid-19-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/23\/sanremo-bakery-founder-natale-bozzo-dies-after-contracting-covid-19-family-says\/","title":{"rendered":"SanRemo Bakery founder Natale Bozzo dies after contracting COVID-19, family says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">CBC- Bozzo known for being &#8216;incredible baker&#8217; and &#8216;a friend to all&#8217; in Etobicoke community Natale Bozzo,\u00a0founder of SanRemo Bakery, has died at the age of 75 after contracting COVID-19, his family said on Thursday.\u00a0&#8220;He was larger than life and we will miss him dearly and will work very hard to keep his memory alive and to honour him,&#8221; reads a statement posted to Facebook by his family on Thursday evening.<\/h5><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5919472.1613690898!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_780\/natale-bozzo.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/sanremo-bakery-founder-dies-covid-19-1.5919430\">Click here to read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8216;Put a pinch of love in everything you do&#8217;: Founder of popular Toronto bakery dies of COVID-19, family says<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>CTVNews<\/strong> &#8211; TORONTO &#8212; The patriarch of a family-run bakery in Toronto\u2019s west end is dead following an ongoing battle with COVID-19. In a post to SanRemo Bakery and Caf\u00e9\u2019s Instagram page Thursday, the Bozzo family confirmed that Natale Bozzo had died after six weeks in hospital. \u201cHe fought very hard, he was in good health prior to this, and we learned of his failing health through very difficult phone calls from the hospital and thankfully we were able to say goodbye,\u201d the post reads. Born in 1945, Bozzo immigrated to Canada from Italy at the age of 15. He started working in Toronto\u2019s Little Italy neighbourhood at Sicilia Bakery on College Street before opening SanRemo Bakery with his brothers in Etobicoke in 1969.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/put-a-pinch-of-love-in-everything-you-do-founder-of-popular-toronto-bakery-dies-of-covid-19-family-says-1.5314857\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/natale-bozzo-1-1024x796.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/natale-bozzo-1-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/natale-bozzo-1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/natale-bozzo-1-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/natale-bozzo-1-600x466.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/natale-bozzo-1.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/put-a-pinch-of-love-in-everything-you-do-founder-of-popular-toronto-bakery-dies-of-covid-19-family-says-1.5314857\">Click here to read more<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC- Bozzo known for being &#8216;incredible baker&#8217; and &#8216;a friend to all&#8217; in Etobicoke community Natale Bozzo,\u00a0founder of SanRemo Bakery, has died at the age of 75 after contracting COVID-19,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[277,276],"class_list":{"0":"post-1958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-natale-bozzo","9":"tag-sanremo-bakery"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/natale-bozzo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}