The Italian pastry chef who invented the recipe for tiramisu as it is known today, Roberto Linguanotto, has died at the age of 81 after a long illness.
Linguanotto, who passed away yesterday, created the famous tiramisu recipe while working at the restaurant “Le Beccherie” in the Italian town of Treviso, in the Veneto region (northeast) where he was born.
According to Italian media, he was inspired by a local sweet, the classic “zabaione” (egg nog), and reinvented this dessert with a recipe based on coffee, cookies, egg yolks, and mascarpone cheese.
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Linguanotto revolutionized pastry thanks to his tiramisu recipe
According to reports, it was initially called “Tiramesú” because it was served to customers of a nearby brothel under that name, and it later became known as tiramisu, as it is called today.
The dessert became popular worldwide, and different versions of this sweet have been created, but at ‘Le Beccherie’ in Treviso, the original recipe is still prepared in its circular form.
Linguanotto “marked a change in pastry. Tiramisu is now a culinary excellence recognized all over the world,” stated the president of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, who praised the pastry chef “for rediscovering and relaunching tiramisu.”
With information from EFE.