Tiramisu is younger than the Moon landing.
Tiramisu is younger than the Moon landing.
Its most-cited birthday is 24 December 1969. Apollo 11 landed that July.
The record: Le Beccherie, a restaurant in central Treviso. Alba di Pillo and pastry chef Roberto Linguanotto. When Ado Campeol, who ran the place with her, died in 2021, the obituaries carried the date and both names. On the menu from 1972. Six ingredients, and cream is not one of them. No liqueur either.
The paperwork: the first printed recipe anyone has found is from 1981, in a Veneto wine magazine. Twelve years after the birthday. For a decade it lived in kitchen memory, not on paper. That is why the fight is still open.
Friuli disagrees. Their claim is Norma Pielli, who ran an inn in Tolmezzo and is said to have served it to hikers in 1959. Her family went public with documents in 2013. In 2017 the ministry listed the Friulian version as a traditional food product; in March 2024 it did the same for Tiramisu di Treviso.
Both are official. Both are traditional. One is younger than the Moon landing.
The name is the part nobody argues about. Tirami su: pick me up.
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