This recipe reminds me of the cuisine I enjoyed while living in the Veneto region of Italy (Padova / Padua). I will certainly try this one!

I noticed one of your favorite cookbooks is one of my staples, Classic Indian Cooking, by Julie Sahni. Might I suggest a couple of my favorites? Trattoria by Patricia Wells (Northern Italian) and Elephant Walk (Cambodian-French cuisine) by Longteine “Nyep” de Monteiro (founding chef of the restaurant). I used to eat there when I lived in Cambridge…first discovered it several months after they opened in Somerville, MA when I was a student at Boston University. My friend Lisa was the University newspaper’s food critic – and I got to go along for the ride on many of her “assignments”!