Last summer, the Treviso-based restaurant , generally recognized as the birthplace of tiramis霉, made headlines when it presented a bid to the European Union, backed by Veneto governor Luca Zaia, to grant protected status to its recipe to prevent it being made with strawberries or cream.
Today, the news is different, and it is not good: Le Beccherie is closing down, after 76 years in business and three generations of the Campeol family managing it.
Although other restaurants in the area claim they own the original recipe for tiramis霉, it is generally accepted that the world-renowned dessert was invented at Le Beccherie in the 1970s by the mother of the current owner, Ada, who wanted a dessert that would give her energy after the birth of her son.
鈥淭his is not a story that I wanted to read,鈥 Zaia said. 鈥溾淭his is not just the end of a piece of Treviso鈥檚 history, but it also marks the closing of a page in the gastronomic culture of the world.鈥
Zaia had said that tiramis霉 for Veneto 鈥渋s like pizza for Naples.鈥
The restaurant will close on March 30. Owner Carlo Campeol blamed the closure on a drastic reduction in the number of customers due to 天美传媒鈥檚 economic crisis.
Try our tiramis霉 recipe here.
