The best three in town are easily the top three in New England, all offering the local "clam pizza" (a white pie - tomato-free, with mozzarella or ricotta cheese - plus local clams).

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The artichoke appetizer had gone awry and came second, but it was worth the wait--boiled to semi-baby-food consistency and with the season's first fava beans. (They stole the show.) I ended with a whole grilled fish and, at the urging of two guys at the next table, Paradiso's prize dessert, sponge cake with dried fruit and sweetened ricotta cheese.

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Coming in first place, by the way, in the bedandbreakfast.com pancake competition is a long-shot, dark-horse entry: a lemon-blueberry ricotta-cheese pancake with a sweet lemon sauce, garnished with fresh strawberries.

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Nearby in Tripoli, Lebanon's second-largest city, the iconic pastry shop Abdel Rahman Hallab specializes in regional pastries like halawit jibneh soft ricotta-like cheese rolled in pastry and topped with sugar syrup and sfiha, small savory pies topped with spicy beef or lamb and pine nuts.

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Spread the remaining ricotta mixture over the mozzarella cheese.

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For one thing, it already had the white-and-green thing going, and ricotta is not all that far off from goat cheese.

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Spread half of the ricotta mixture (about 1 cup) over the mozzarella cheese.

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Cotija, a fresh crumbly cheese found in Mexican grocery stores, also gets stirred in (ricotta salata makes a fine substitute).

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