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ITALY: Fried cow’s brains might not be to everyone’s taste, but more people may sample the Florentine specialty now that Italy’s art capital has ordered food outlets in the city centre to sell mostly local produce.

Florence is the latest Italian tourist destination to adopt the mantra “you are what you eat”, and is requiring shops and restaurants to make sure that 70% of their food comes from the surrounding region.

“We are seeing an unstoppable distortion in our cultural heritage, of which food is a part,” mayor Dario Nardella wrote on Facebook.