Italiano
Everyone knows which are the most famous Italian dishes in the world: pizza, spaghetti, lasagna, ravioli, and so on.
But those are “savoury foods”. What about the desserts?
Well, as it comes to the “sweet side”, the crown is firmly in the hands of Tiramisù.
Egg yolk, mascarpone, sugar, espresso coffee (the strongest, the better), Savoiardi ladyfingers biscuits, cocoa powder.
A very simple preparation, with no cooking required. Tiramisù lasts for days in the fridge and is good and nutritious.
And restorative, above all. The name itself says it: tiramisu, literally means cheer me up.
What about its origins? Far away in time and clouded by a thousand legends?
Not really: the dessert is quite recent, and dates back to the 70s of the twentieth century.
It was invented in the restaurant Le Beccherie in Treviso, by Pastry Chef Roberto Linguanotto, along with the owners of the restaurant, Mr and Mrs Campeol.
Inspired by a typical tonic of the local peasant tradition, the so-called sbatudin, composed of egg yolk, sugar and mascarpone, the dessert became very popular straight away. So much so that it quickly conquered not only the rest of Italy, but all of Europe.
Its recent origin has certainly not prevented various attempts at story-telling: on the other hand, as I wrote in another post concerning the Roman Pinsa, story-telling isn’t supposed to tell the truth!
Among the most imaginative is that of a mother-in-law who ran a restaurant together with her son and his wife. The daughter-in-law, who had returned from maternity leave, was still too weak to go back to work. The mother-in-law then created this dessert precisely to get her strength back. To get him back to the kitchen soon, not for anything else…
Another story has it that the dessert was invented by the owner of a brothel. Customers complained that wives had taken to the habit of asking their husbands to fulfill their conjugal duties when they came home late. Obviously, if these hadn’t been performing, they would have immediately understood that the reason would have been the visit to the bawdy house.
Soon done, the Maitresse invented this dessert which, like an ante-litteram viagra, allowed faithless husbands to be able to satisfy their wives as well. To everyone’s satisfaction: the bawd kept her customers returning: the wives no longer had reason to suspect, and then the husbands, who were the most satisfied of all…
The point is: eat tiramisu because it’s good. And no, I don’t think it works wonders in bed (but don’t underestimate the placebo effect).
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