Maia and I went to a labor day BBQ at her cousin Kim & family's house. We brought this salad--it's easy to make and unique. The recipe is from the New York Times in June 2009. We used our new Borner V-Slicer Plus Mandoline to cut the radishes--it seriously cut down probably 30 mintues of chopping. The ricotta salata is a hard variety of ricotta that's salted and dried; the texture is very similar to feta cheese.