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==History== [[File:Tiramisu in Naples.jpg|thumb|250px|Tiramisu in Naples, Italy]] Tiramisu appears to have been invented in the late 1960s or early 1970s, but where and when exactly is unclear.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/17/italian-regions-battle-over-who-invented-tiramisu-in-long-runnin/|title=Italian regions battle over who invented tiramisu|first=Nick|last=Squires|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=17 May 2016|publisher=|access-date=27 March 2018|via=telegraph.co.uk|archive-date=28 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328052600/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/17/italian-regions-battle-over-who-invented-tiramisu-in-long-runnin/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://telanganatoday.com/ado-campeol-at-whose-restaurant-tiramisu-was-invented-passes-away-at-93|title=Ado Campeol, at whose restaurant tiramisu was invented, passes away at 93|date=1 November 2021|access-date=3 November 2021|archive-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103092415/https://telanganatoday.com/ado-campeol-at-whose-restaurant-tiramisu-was-invented-passes-away-at-93|url-status=live}}</ref> Some believe the recipe was derived from ''sbatudin'', a simpler dessert made of egg yolks and sugar.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leigh |first=Wendy |date=1 April 2023 |title=Before Tiramisu Was Officially Created, It Was Sbatudin |url=https://www.tastingtable.com/1240183/before-tiramisu-was-officially-created-it-was-sbatudin/ |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=Tasting Table |language=en-US |archive-date=20 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620182307/https://www.tastingtable.com/1240183/before-tiramisu-was-officially-created-it-was-sbatudin/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Others argue it originated from another dish, ''[[dolce Torino]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lim |first=Heather |date=7 May 2023 |title=The Original Tiramisu Recipe Has No Heavy Cream Or Marsala |url=https://www.tastingtable.com/1274405/original-tiramisu-recipe-no-heavy-cream-marsala/ |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=Tasting Table |language=en-US |archive-date=20 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620182306/https://www.tastingtable.com/1274405/original-tiramisu-recipe-no-heavy-cream-marsala/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The tiramisu recipe is not found in cookbooks before the 1960s.<ref name="Artusi">{{cite book |title=La Scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene|chapter=Torte e dolci al cucchiaio|author=Pellegrino Artusi |page=571|year=1960–1991|publisher=Giunti Editore |isbn=88-09-00386-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=La Marca gastronomica: amore e nostalgia per la cucina e i vini di nostra tradizione|author=Fernando Raris|author2=Tina Raris|location=Treviso|publisher=Canova Editore|page=31|year=1998|isbn=88-87061-55-6}}</ref><ref name="TCI">{{cite book |title=Italia dei dolci |page=57|year=2004|isbn=88-365-2931-3|last=Cremona |first=Luigi |publisher=Touring Editore }}</ref> It is mentioned in a ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald|Sydney Morning Herald]]'' restaurant column published in 1978.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lane|first=Trevor|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=30 August 1978|page=20|department=Eating Out|title=The Irish in Paddington|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119890369/|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=28 February 2023|archive-date=1 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801034205/https://www.newspapers.com/article/119890369/|url-status=live}}</ref> It is not mentioned in encyclopaedias and dictionaries of the 1970s,<ref>{{cite book |title=Enciclopedia Europea Garzanti|year=1981}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Enciclopedia Universale Rizzoli Larousse|year=1971}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dizionario della lingua italiana Garzanti|year=1980}}</ref> first appearing in an Italian dictionary in 1980,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Il Sabatini Coletti. Dizionario della Lingua Italiana |url=https://dizionari.corriere.it/dizionario_italiano/T/tiramisu.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915045229/https://dizionari.corriere.it/dizionario_italiano/T/tiramisu.shtml |archive-date=15 September 2020 }}</ref> and in English in 1982.<ref>{{cite web | title = Tiramisu | work = Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary | url = http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tiramisu | access-date = 11 June 2020 | archive-date = 20 February 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100220145237/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tiramisu | url-status = live }}</ref> It is mentioned in a 1983 cookbook devoted to cooking of the [[Veneto]] region.<ref>{{cite book | title = I Dolci Del Veneto | first = Giovanni | last = Capnist | isbn = 88-7021-239-4 | year = 1983| publisher = F. Muzzio }}</ref> Obituaries for the restaurateur Ado Campeol (1928–2021) reported that it was invented at his restaurant Le Beccherie in [[Treviso]] on 24 December 1969 by his wife Alba di Pillo (1929–2021) and the pastry chef Roberto Linguanotto (1943–2024).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://telanganatoday.com/ado-campeol-at-whose-restaurant-tiramisu-was-invented-passes-away-at-93|title=Ado Campeol, at whose restaurant tiramisu was invented, passes away at 93|date=1 November 2021|access-date=3 November 2021|archive-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103092415/https://telanganatoday.com/ado-campeol-at-whose-restaurant-tiramisu-was-invented-passes-away-at-93|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/11/11/news/dopo_il_papa_del_tiramisu_muore_anche_la_mamma-325980673/|title=Pochi giorni dopo Ado Campeol, il papà del tiramisù, muore anche la moglie Alba Di Pillo, la vera ideatrice del dolce dei record|work=La Repubblica|date=11 November 2021|access-date=18 November 2021|archive-date=18 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118223615/https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/11/11/news/dopo_il_papa_del_tiramisu_muore_anche_la_mamma-325980673/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="TelCampeol">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/11/02/ado-campeol-father-tiramisu-helped-rich-pudding-become-staple/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/11/02/ado-campeol-father-tiramisu-helped-rich-pudding-become-staple/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Ado Campeol, 'father of tiramisu' who helped the rich pudding to become a staple of Italian menus around the world – obituary|work=The Telegraph|location=London|date=2 November 2021|access-date=3 November 2021}}{{cbignore}} </ref> The dish was added to its menu in 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59103658|title='Father of tiramisu' Ado Campeol dies aged 93|date=30 October 2021|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=31 October 2021|archive-date=1 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101230704/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59103658|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="laura vozzella">{{cite news | date = 8 October 2006 | first = Laura | last = Vozzella | url = https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2006-10-08-0610080034-story.html | title = The Unsung Inventor of Tiramisu | newspaper = [[The Baltimore Sun]] | access-date = 21 April 2014 | archive-date = 3 June 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200603032655/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2006-10-08-0610080034-story.html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="jane black">{{cite news | date = 10 July 2007 | first = Jane | last = Black | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071000327.html | title = The Trail of Tiramisu | newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] | access-date = 11 July 2007 | archive-date = 13 October 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081013004733/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071000327.html | url-status = live }}</ref> At the time of his death in July 2024, the Le Beccherie restaurant credited Linguanotto as the creator of the tiramisu.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/07/30/tiramisu-inventor-roberto-linguanotto-death/74611121007/|title=Father of Tiramisu Roberto "Loli" Linguanotto dies at 81, leaving 'sweet legacy'|first=Anthony|last=Robeldo|publisher=USA Today|date=July 30, 2024|accessdate=July 30, 2024}}</ref> It has been claimed that tiramisu has [[aphrodisiac]] effects and was concocted by a 19th-century Treviso brothel madam, as the Accademia Del Tiramisù explains, to "solve the problems they may have had with their conjugal duties on their return to their wives".<ref name="TelCampeol"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.accademiadeltiramisu.com/en/the-origin-of-tiramisu-fact-and-legend/|title=THE ORIGIN OF TIRAMISÙ: "FACT AND LEGEND". ⋆ Accademia Del Tiramisù|access-date=3 February 2019|archive-date=3 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203090530/https://www.accademiadeltiramisu.com/en/the-origin-of-tiramisu-fact-and-legend/|url-status=live}}</ref> There is evidence of a ''tiremesù'' semi-frozen dessert served by the Vetturino restaurant in Pieris, in the [[Friuli-Venezia Giulia]] region, since 1938.<ref>{{Citation|last=Dolce Jasmine|title=Tiramisù: The story behind it|date=13 November 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxqfBG9nYjs&t=49| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/dxqfBG9nYjs| archive-date=7 November 2021 | url-status=live|access-date=14 November 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> This may be the name's origin, while the recipe for tiramisu may have originated as a variation of another layered dessert, [[zuppa inglese]].<ref name="history of tiramisu">{{cite web |title=History of tiramisù |url=http://www.annamariavolpi.com/page38.html |access-date=16 August 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604101928/http://www.annamariavolpi.com/page38.html |archive-date=4 June 2012 }}</ref> Others claim it was created toward the end of the 17th century in [[Siena]] in honour of Grand Duke [[Cosimo III de' Medici|Cosimo III]].<ref>{{cite book | first1= Francesco | last1= Soletti | first2= Ettore | last2= Toscani | title= L'Italia del caffè |year= 2004 | page= 110 | language= it}}</ref> On 29 July 2017, tiramisu was entered by the [[Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests (Italy)|Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies]] on the list of traditional Friulian and Giulian agri-food products in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/11568|title=Diciassettesima revisione dell elenco dei prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali|trans-title=Seventeenth revision of the list of traditional agri-food products|website=Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry|lang=it|page=24|quote=pdf download=page 26 Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia item 137|access-date=26 June 2023|archive-date=26 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626225720/https://www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/11568|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/gu/2017/07/29/176/so/41/sg/pdf|title=GU Serie Generale n.176|date=29 July 2017|volume=Suppl. Ordinario n. 41|language=it|access-date=8 August 2017|archive-date=5 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805220832/http://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/gu/2017/07/29/176/so/41/sg/pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2013, [[Luca Zaia]], President of Veneto, sought [[European Union]] protected status certification for the dessert, based on the ingredients used in 1970, so substitute ingredients, such as strawberries, could not be used in a dish called tiramisu.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/10/31/1050951605/ado-campeol-the-man-known-as-the-father-of-tiramisu-has-died|title=Ado Campeol, the man known as the 'father of tiramisu', has died|first=Joe|last=Hernandez|date=31 October 2021|publisher=[[NPR]]|access-date=3 November 2021|archive-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103092415/https://www.npr.org/2021/10/31/1050951605/ado-campeol-the-man-known-as-the-father-of-tiramisu-has-died|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/save-tiramisu-italian-treviso-dessert|title=Save the tiramisu, says Italian politician|date=23 August 2013|website=The Guardian|access-date=17 November 2021|archive-date=20 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120023142/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/save-tiramisu-italian-treviso-dessert|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/italian-politician-asks-eu-grant-tiramisu-protected-status|title=Italian Politician Asks EU To Grant Tiramisu Protected Status|website=ITALY Magazine|access-date=3 November 2021|archive-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103092416/https://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/italian-politician-asks-eu-grant-tiramisu-protected-status|url-status=live}}</ref>
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