Tiramisu - Wikipedia

Tiramisu [a] is an Italian dessert made of ladyfinger pastries (savoiardi) dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks, sugar, ... It has been claimed that tiramisu has aphrodisiac effects and was concocted by a 19th century Treviso brothel madam, ...

The History of Tiramisu - Back Then History

The two then added coffee-soaked ladyfingers and created the dessert that came to be known as tiramisu. It made its debut appearance on the restaurant's menu in 1972. The recipe was later certified by the Italian Academy of Cuisine. ... Still others believe the dessert was actually invented as an aphrodisiac in the brothels of Treviso. While we ...

The many-layered mystery of tiramisu - Financial Times

Dig even deeper and you find references to an aphrodisiac concocted by a Treviso madam ... "Tiramisu is the ultimate Italian dessert: a masterpiece," it proclaims. Given the snooty eye-rolling ...

Deconstructing tiramisu: the coffee-infused Italian classic

According to the Accademia del Tiramisù (an organisation devoted to 'transmitting the culture of tiramisù'), the dessert is a good deal older, created by a Treviso madam as an aphrodisiac ...

Tiramisu - Traditional and Authentic Italian Recipe | 196 flavors

Tiramisu is the famous delicious dessert from Italy with a creamy mascarpone base and flavored with chocolate and coffee. Skip to primary navigation; Skip to main content; ... Thus the tiremesù, a true aphrodisiac, a natural "viagra" of the nineteenth century was born, and it was offered to the customers of this brothel after their antics ...