On 3/14/2011 4:21 AM, Giusi wrote:
> "Janet > ha scritto nel messaggio
>
> Julie Bove wrote:
> Yes, in Italy they call tomato sauce "gravy".
>>>
>>> And yet when *I* used that term, few people knew what I meant.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I knew. I grew up with Sicilianos. They taught me to cook Italian food.
>
> 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.
>
>

Maybe it's a NY Metro thing?

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Janet Wilder
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