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*Subject:*	Re(2): Istrian Sports Club, Astoria
*From:*	Zucca4@aol.com (Lisa Antinore)
*Posted:*	February 20, 1998 at 09:20:49
*In Reply To:*	Re(1): Istrian Sports Club, Astoria Posted by Jim Leff on February 20, 1998 at 01:42:05
*Message:*	`The neighborhood in which I live is a lovely mix of Southern Italian and Yugoslavian with quite a few residents of Istrian and Friulian ancestry. I myself am Siclian-American with a bunch of Austro-Hungarian influences mushed in (nothing like a good sauerkraut lasagna!!!)so it's no wonder that I love Istrian and Friulian specialties.` `If you do go to the Istria Sports Club (If you're into soccer clubs, however, I highly recommend the Frulian Famee Furlane in College Point- It's a favorite of Lidia Bastianich, the sweet owner of Felidia, Becco, and Frico in NYC and upon meeting her there a few times, she confessed that it's her fave place to dine in NY!!! And she's a gal with AMAZING taste.....)` `there are a few things you should try to sample:` `PAUSTICE: hand-rolled diamond-shaped pasta usually served with a fish or seafood sauce (sometimes cod is soaked and pureed until it's creamy and serve over the paustice with sardines....YUM-YUM -much better tasting than it sounds...)` `FUZI: same diamond-shaped pasta with the corners tucked in served with thick, meaty sauces (sometimes boar, rabbit, sausage, quail, veal, or deer if it's been hauled in from a recent hunting expedition...)` `KRAFI: ever-so-sweet cheese raviloli, a sort of gnocchi (at Istria Sports Club they are sprinkled with sugar and rasins- other places might stuff them with more savory, salty cheeses such as Reggiano..)` `YOTA: a thick yummy stew with beans, onions, garlic, carrots, prosciutto and sauerkraut (usually a starter..)` `BRODETTO:- a lovely seafood broth filled with calamari, mussels, snapper, shrimp, scallops, etc. served over POLENTA (a lot of this with various dishes..)` `There is also a delicious condiment called AJVAR ( a mixture of tomato, red-pepper, and eggplant) and a wonderful dessert, PALACINKE, which are nutella (many a Catholic school lunch for me.....) filled crepes....` `Have fun listening to the animated soccer-speak and if you know how to play the Italian card games briscola or tre sette, you're in luck. Last time I did the soccer-club thing, my companion was a master briscola player and we were treated to more grappa (mix it with some water as many of my neighbors do) than either one of us cared to drink!!!!` `Buon Appetito!!!!`