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Janet Wilder[_1_] Janet Wilder[_1_] is offline
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Default NEED A GOOD COOK BOOK TO MAKE A GOOD GRAVY LIKE MOM MADE!

On 3/13/2011 5:36 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> Janet Wilder wrote:
>> On 3/13/2011 12:16 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> > wrote

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>>>> "Nancy > wrote

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>>>>> Sounds like he's looking for tomato sauce.

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>>>> Yes, in Italy they call tomato sauce "gravy".
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>>> And yet when *I* used that term, few people knew what I meant.

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>> I knew. I grew up with Sicilianos. They taught me to cook Italian
>> food.

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



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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