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gloria.p

Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:04:21 +0000 (UTC),
> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
>> sf > wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:16:34 +0000 (UTC),
>>>> Sometimes. Italian-Americans do it all three ways --
>>>> in their sauces (which only some call "gravy"; my family
>>>> did not)
>>> Not sure - do Sicilians call it gravy?
>> Not my Sicilians.
>>
>> Really, the "gravy" terminology is not something I ever
>> heard of until the Internet was created and stories like
>> that just started circulating out of proportion to
>> actual linguistic usage.
>
> Interesting I heard the "gravy" term long before I even had a
> computer.
>
> Lou

I have a cookbook from a church auxiliary in Boston's Little Italy
that is at least 30 years old and some of the ladies referred to
their red sauce as "gravy" back then.

gloria p