Cheer up! It’s tiramisu!
That is literally what “tiramisu” (or originally “tireme su”) means in the Treviso dialect. The Italians’ most favourite dessert was meant to cheer up customers at the end of their meals.
Pasta is usually made from durum wheat flour and takes its name presumably from Latin pasta, alatinisation of the Greek pasta which means “barley porridge”. When flour and water are mixed …