>> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:19:32 -0400, Joseph DeMartino wrote
(in article
<7ac719cc-5679-49dd-9e13-b5b6e3673ed6@m16g2000vbs.googlegroups.com>):
> 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: <<
No, you don't need to prove it to me: the fact that Clemenza said it (cannot
believe I never noticed that, in MANY viewings), and as Duggy pointed out, it
was used on The Sopranos (northern Jersey), is good enough. It makes me
think there's a reason I missed hearing it over the years. I do think it's a
regionalism, but maybe based on the region of Italy the family came from,
rather than strictly where they live now. Maybe I knew more Siciliano from
the *other* side of Sicily, and Napolitano, with a few Abruzzese thrown in
for good measure. :-)
All this talk makes me want to take a culinary vacation over there...
Amy (who cooked her own "Sunday gravy" from farm tomatoes this week!)
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