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Crostini toscani is a signature dish of Italy; we have verified places to eat it in Florence. Slices of Tuscan country bread topped with a rough paste of chicken livers cooked with onion, capers, anchovies and vin santo. Start with where to eat Crostini toscani in Florence.
Slices of Tuscan country bread topped with a rough paste of chicken livers cooked with onion, capers, anchovies and vin santo. The canonical Tuscan antipasto.
Crostini toscani (also called crostini neri or crostini di fegatini) are the canonical opening course of a Tuscan meal, served before pasta. The chicken-liver paste traces to medieval peasant cooking where every part of the chicken was used; the Florentine version with capers and anchovies appeared in 18th-century cookery books. Forno and trattoria bakers still toast the bread on a wood-fired grill before topping. Trattoria Sostanza (1869) and Trattoria Mario serve crostini toscani as their fixed antipasto; modernist versions at Locale Firenze add port reduction.
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