I took a foreign friend to a local trattoria on my side of the river, diladdarno, to sample a favourite local dish, fritto misto alla fiorentina. When he heard my order, he wondered why on earth anyone would want to deep-fry a beautiful fiorentina steak and, even more perplexing, what would tempt me to order it. Despite his good knowledge of food, he had limited understanding of the language, and he thought I was ordering us a whole bistecca fiorentina, at least 1 kilo of the best Tuscan chianina beef on the bone, to be thrown in the deep-fryer with other things. Not only was my order ‘lost in translation,' but the result would have been utter food death!
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