Insalata di Fritto Misto

This is another dish I made up for a Saturday lunch for my wine-trade friends. “Fritto misto is an Italian mixed grill,” wrote the saucy Molly Castle back in 1935 in her Round the World with an Appetite, “but it is as different from the English mixed grill as the Italian and English methods of lovemaking. Fritto misto is light, airy, unexpected, and its intentions are not strictly honourable.” A classic fritto misto might include as many as 12 or 14 different