Fritto Twisto

New takes on small fry

Some dishes just taste better in the sunshine and nothing says summer lunch on the lagoon better than a fritto misto. Crispy batter, tart lemon and a good crack of salt, it’s the venetian equivalent of fish and chips on the pier, and in fact shares similar origins. The practice of frying fish has been traced to the polycultural Moorish kingdom of Al And…