But a rival version of the dessert’s history goes back much further. “Tiramisu was a natural Viagra,” says Anna Maria Pellegrino, a member of Italian cultural association the Academy of ...

In honour of Ado Campeol, who invented the tiramisu in the 1970s and has just died at the age of 93, writer Alex Sims pens a love letter to the creamy, coffee-soaked Italian dessert. A mouth ...