NEED A GOOD COOK BOOK TO MAKE A GOOD GRAVY LIKE MOM MADE!

[Liz-iz-bizzy]

Janet Wilder wrote:





Thing is, it has to be used in context or people with think it's
roast beef gravy or something.

nancy

[The Syndicate]

On 3/13/2011 5:36 PM, Nancy Young wrote:


I remember going to a state park with my parents when I was a kid. We
brought a little grill and made hamburgers and hot dogs. My mom
wouldn't use the ones in the park. I would always hear the Italian
ladies talking about "the gravy" and wondered why they would be making
brown gravy. It wasn't until I was of cooking age that I learned that
gravy was made with tomatoes from my friend Janet Crozio's Nauna.


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Way-the-heck-south Texas
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[luvleegurl666]

Nancy Young wrote:

I used the term "red gravy" which is what my inlaws call it. They're
Scicilian.

[orcino]

"Janet Wilder" ha scritto nel messaggio

Julie Bove wrote:
Yes, in Italy they call tomato sauce "gravy".

It's just the result of bad translation. Sugo infers that meat is involved
in some way whereas salsa infers there was not. Neither one of them really
means "gravy" but in the US they had to come up with a word.
My mother's best friend was Napolitana and her husband Siciliano, both
arrived there as babies. They never used the term gravy. It seems to be
more geographical in the US than to do with geographical in Italy.

[Sahil S]

On 3/14/2011 4:21 AM, Giusi wrote:

Maybe it's a NY Metro thing?

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

[phantomgirl24]

On Mar 11, 9:19?pm, [email protected] wrote:

Bitterness comes from tomato paste, in my experience. Try using
crushed tomatoes in puree.

[Eko]

Giusi wrote:

My father said about the same. He said as even as a young boy when he
heard people use the English word "gravy" he recognized what was meant
but it was never a word used by his own family. They come from near
Benevento.