556. Bistecca alla Fiorentina

Steak Florentine Style

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

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The English word “beefsteak” means rib steak. This is the origin of our word “bistecca,” which is simply a steak with the bone left in,93 about a finger or a finger and a half thick, cut from the loin of a young animal. Florentine butchers call both yearlings and any bovine animal about two years old a “calf.” But if these animals could speak, they would tell you not only that they are no longer calves, but that they have already had a m

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