maestro. >> bottura: now.ey want to crucify me in the main piazza. now, they call me maestro. that's the difference. >> stahl: some of the maestro's dishes are improvisations born out of accidents, like his "oops! i dropped the lemon tart." >> bottura: that's a classic. ( laughter ) >> stahl: the story begins when his pastry chef, taka, was making a lemon tart. >> bottura: i saw taka completely white. he drop one of the two tart in the plate, upside down, just like that. >> stahl: oh, god. >> bottura: taka was, like, ready to kill himself. and, and i said, "taka! taka, no! please, no." >> stahl: "don't kill yourself." >> bottura: "don't, don't. look at that. that lemon tart is so beautiful that we have to serve the second one exactly the first one." we did it. , erfect way, the imperfection. we smashed the other tart exactly as the first one. i can't believe-- i can't believe we did that. if i think now, i-- like, we were crazy. i was like, totally out of mind. >> stahl: "oops, i dropped the lemon tart" is jac