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Bistecca alla fiorentina (Beefsteak Florentine Style)

Sunday, 14 December 2025 - 11:11 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
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🔊 Listen to this Post Bistecca alla fiorentina (lit.: Beefsteak Florentine Style) is an Italian steak dish made of young steer (vitellone) or heifer (scottona) that is one of the most famous dishes in Tuscan cuisine. It is loin steak on the bone cooked on a grill until rare (50°C). The word bistecca was borrowed from the English beefsteak in the early 19th century. An 1863 dictionary defines it as:

Italian: “…una larga fetta di carne, tagliata dalla culatta o d’altronde, poco arrostito sulla gratella, or altramente, e che si mangia così guascotta.”

“…a thick slice of meat, cut from the rump or elsewhere, lightly cooked on a grill or otherwise, and eaten undercooked.”

Bistecca alla fiorentina is obtained from the cut of the sirloin (the part corresponding to the lumbar vertebrae, the half of the back on the side of the tail) of a young steer or heifer of the Chianina breed: in the middle it has the T-shaped bone, that is, a T-bone steak, with the fillet on one side and the sirloin on the other.

Today the steak is cut 3–4 fingers high (5–6 cms) in the loin. An average bistecca alla fiorentina when ordered at a restaurant weighs between 0.9 and 1.2 kilograms. The cost can range from twenty to one hundred euros per kilo.

Read more on billyparisi.com – Bistecca Alla Fiorentina Recipe (Florentine Steak) and Wikipedia Bistecca alla fiorentina (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). Photos by Wikimedia Commons. If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.

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