On Sep 10, 11:35 pm, Amy Guskin  wrote:   
   > >> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:33:18 -0400, Joseph DeMartino wrote   
   > > That's just a classic Italian-Americanism - certainly as true in New   
   > > York and Boston as in the Philly area.<<   
   >   
   > Nope.  No way!  I never heard it until I moved down here.  And I lived in   
   > Brooklyn, and Long Island, and Brooklyn again   
   Well, if you're going to drag Brooklyn and Long Island into it... ;-)   
   All I know is that in my immediate and extended family (plus friends   
   and nieghbors) throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and southern   
   Westchester, "gravy" was the word - as confirmed by the Giordanos of   
   Philly and assorted folks in the Boston area.   
   Here are a couple of web articles/recipes on the subject:   
   http://tinyurl.com/29pezbv   Sunday Gravy   
   http://tinyurl.com/28hapfy   Sicilian Culture   
   http://tinyurl.com/29pezbv   Sauce or Gravy?   
   One theory suggests that the difference in usage among different   
   communities and even families arises from they way each translated the   
   Italian *sugo* and *salsa* (terms for various sauces) into English.   
   (And even in Italy there were regional variations in the way sugo and   
   salsa were applied.)   
   (And Tyler Florence calls the red sauce he calls "gravy", so   
   apparently he learned how to make it from one of "my" Italians, not   
   one of yours.)   
   Regards,   
   Joe   
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