Arista di Maiale alla Fiorentina

According to Tuscan kitchen lore, this dish has Renaissance origins. They say it was especially created for the Ecumenical Council in Florence, the year that the Greek Orthodox Church was invited for the first time. In those days of very slow and perilous travel, nobody was quite sure how long it might take the esteemed guests to arrive. So they had to create a dish which would “hold” over several days before becoming completely rotten and inedible. The natural preservative qualities of ros