Tiramisu, two ways

Although its recipe didn’t appear in cookbooks until the 1960s, the word play on tirami su — ‘pick me up’ — slightly reminds us of the experiments of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the poet and founder of the Futurist movement. In the early twentieth century, he made some unfortunate attempts to Italianise the names of some foods, coming up with words such as pranzoalsole for picnic (lunch in the sun), or traidue for sandwich (between two).