This polpettone recipe was kindly given to me by the wonderful London-based Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi a few years ago, when we met for a coffee at his restaurant NOPI and discussed some ideas for my book. I asked him if there was a recipe which was dear to him from his Italian Jewish family, the Ottolenghis, and which I might include in my own recipe collection when the time came. I bec