Bistecca Alla Fiorentina Recipe

Few dishes symbolize Florence and evoke a sense of place more than Bistecca alla Florentina. Known abroad as either a T-bone or porterhouse steak, to the Florentines it is simply a bistecca and was originally known as carbonata. The wod bistecca comes from the English word beefsteak. The term gained currency in the mid-nineteenth century with the arrival of British settlers in Tuscany.