It’s ignorant American Guido Wannabee speak! Well before tomatoes arrived in Europe from South America many hundreds of years ago and along time before Italians went to the Americas. Most Italian dishes we know are made differently in each province. 3. This story is all wet. I’m dedicated to the mission of the page, which is to make Italians feel more connected (and to celebrate) their life’s story and background. So regardless of it’s origin, it is a legitimate term in English because native English speakers use it. be true to your roots. In the US, the fat is the essential component. Which is why it's white! In 1902, an Italian woman described her tomato sauce as “gravy” in the New-York Daily Tribune, and Chef Boyardee canned his … I have made this hundreds of times. The gravy is actually similar to something we might eat with chicken or fish. There is No Tomato Gravy and There Is no Meat Gravy its Tomato sauce @ Meat Sauce and The Dictionary Says; Gravy.. A Sauce etc. Funny cause I’m still 100% HARDCORE Italian either way and I make everything from rainbow cookies, pignoli cookies, rice balls, panelle, and pasta Sunday is still a tradition! I Think The Truth is With the Facts, ie No such name for any pasta condiment. Opinions are always very one-sided and harsh. It is made from tomatos. Visions of digestive biscuits with beef gravy aren’t that appealing. 4. I grew up in Staten Island. There is really no right or wrong answer. Later it spread to Chicago, Philly and Jersey as the Italians did. Languages are alive- they arise organically and evolve. Just because it is not a direct translation does not mean it is wrong. Some people think only New Yorkers or pre-WWII immigrants say gravy and that more recent immigrants say sauce. Although it is not the accurate name for sugo in English, that was how my grandparents translated it when they came here and it stuck. It was the word we used in my family, so that’s the word I use for it when I am with them. “It looks like sick.” The BuzzFeed News App: Smart. If you use the term “gravy” you are telling the rest of us you lack education. That is actually how it is termed in the definition. How many other commonly used terms in English or any language for that matter can trace their origins to a mistake or a misinterpretation? An Italian from Italy will tell you you are wrong because that’s not how ‘they’ say it. No, they use tomato sauce! I don’t recall what he called it but all his children (my Dad & his five sisters) called it red gravy. Don’t let anyone convince you that words you use in your native language are not legitimate. There’s a few differences between British English and American English words for food. I would suggest to call it by whatever you grew up saying. I can't think of anything that would be equivalent to Bisto. I don’t understand. Low price groceries, fashion and more. Italian or American region, or age doesn’t matter. Not what they do in Italy. That is the question among connoisseurs of Italian cuisine, when it comes to whether you should call your favorite pasta toping “sauce” or “gravy.” It’s an age-old food fight that’s still simmering today, and not even Italian-American chefs can agree on which to call what — or why. Advertisement Another prominent Italian American voice wished I hadn’t asked at all. In 1870 the great gastrognome Pellegrino Artusi, personal chef to King Emmanuel I and Emmanuel II, toured the entire country of Italy collecting recipes from each province. My dad also dropped the word and if it slipped out my mom commented on it. Sorry to burst your bubble. Do you have a different opinion than me? Emojis. In Old French, “graue” was a more popular spelling than “grave,” which leads me to believe this word originates from Latin because of the pronunciation of the “v.” It would be the same as a “u,” i.e., oo. Gravy belongs on turkey for me but i dont care what people call it. And sauce is what u dip in. When my brother married my sister-in-law from the BRONX, that’s when the —– hit the fan. Needless to say I grew, I learned and now I call it sauce. Gravy doesn’t exist in Italy anywhere (also, Italian alphabet doesn’t have the letter “y”). Why are Italian Americans so passionate about sauce or gravy? IF IT DOSN’T HAVE MEAT THEN IT IS SAUCE! They evolved over time and became something unique and separate from what exists in Italy. https://www.thespruceeats.com/easy-traditional-beef-gravy-recipe-435754 My family always called it gravy but then I moved to Florida and gravy is brown and goes on turkey. All of our slang term and phrase definitions are made possible by our wonderful visitors. Somewhere along the way my mom stopped calling meat sauce gravy and started calling it meat sauce to differentiate it from marinara sauce. Learn how to make Perfect Turkey Gravy. It’s “Gravy”…… sauce is like wine sauce or Holland aide etc…. Tell us already! I don’t agree because we are not even talking about the same food. Aimee M Lee/Shutterstock "'Biscuits and gravy' sounds weird to British ears as it sounds like 'cookies and brown gravy.' Italian Sons & Daughters 419 Wood St., #3 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 T. (412) 261-3550 E. info@orderisda.org, © 2020 Italian Sons & Daughters of America, The Sopranos and Italian Dialects: The Real Story of Our Language, Your Language Roadmap to Maneuver Through Italy’s Restaurant Scene. Still authentic and true to their culture and traditions today so we don’t have to have stupid arguments like this one. Where the term came about Its a slang term I believe about testicles haha, Sorry, that’s not true. There is not one Italian or descendant of an Italian that would ever call it gravy. Why are Italian Americans so passionate about sauce or gravy? (maybe AFTER you in some body armor…). One aunt would put hard boiled eggs in it. When I lived in Italy several years ago, I learned that two words with similar meanings can have different interpretations based on context and I would often get corrected. If your grandfather sacrificed everything to come to America and called it Sauce/Gravy, and somebody says that’s wrong… It can definitely be aggravating. For instance: ristorante, trattoria and osteria -- they're all restaurants, but they're all very different. Sauce is the more common term. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian. Grotto, “cave,” rotta. Thank you for your thoroughness. I respect your way, you respect mine, one big happy Italian Fest! Next, I buy the gravy a drink – adding a glass of red wine for beef and lamb, white wine for chicken or a glass of cider for pork – and simmer gently for another hour. I think of gravy as a smooth topping made specifically from meat drippings, with a thickening agent like flour, whisked into velvet. Its sauce! Founded in 1930, ISDA has kept its strong sense of community alive and thriving to become one of the largest and most financially successful Italian American organizations in the country. Just like, “are you Italian or sicilian. Now when you make turkey gravy you make it from the drippings of the turkey when you make beef gravy you make it from the drippings of the beef. Get over it already! In Italian he jokingly called it something else he refused to translate. As owner and content creator for Hardcore Italians for over 10+ years, I have seen this argument pop-up countless times. However, if you look below the surface, there is a deeper reason why people are so defensive on the topic. is an Italian-American blog covering Italian news, culture, recipes, videos, and more! Learn how your comment data is processed. My grandparents were right off the boat, and always called it gravy. But I’m from the Boston area, and alot of other people call it gravy. I taught my kids gravy the way my parents taught me and my parents and I are born native Californians this is where my grandparents immigrated to. So, when an American in Manchester talks about walking around the house without any pants on, a British man or woman would picture the American in question as strolling around in his or her birthday suit. IT’S SAUCE!!!!!! We grew up calling it sauce. Italian-Americans are pretty split (and heavily opinionated) about whether their delicious Italian Sunday sugo is called “Sauce” or “Gravy.”. In Old French, it was gravé, spelled more frequently as graue. A “v” in Latin and Neapolitan is spoken as a “w,” i.e., g-rau-e. Now, add the fact that Neapolitans tend to leave off the last vowel and we get just “grau.”. I was born in South Philly…, and so we and our relatives from the burbs and South Jersey too, always went with one clear distinction on this matter: IF it had MEAT in it, we called it GRAVY…PERIOD!!! I call It Sauce, But I Am Sure other members of my Family Call It Gravy, I agree with Susanne; Gravy goes on Roast Beef And Biscuits. Other success we call by there true name Ie, Spaghetti agile e olio etc. They say that Americans take a bath in the sauce. And it’s “graziE”, by the way. My mom used both! For the purist ,when you come from Italy to USA you are Italian and the name is sugo salsa e ragù than i you melt and you still are Italian but your sons became Americans and call the sauce gravy , gravy is never a sauce I am an international Italian chef , the main reason when 200 years ago the Italians came to the USA ,almost all came from the south of Italy and they were mostly agricultures you can imagine they didn’t speak Italian because they didn’t go to school they spoke the Italian dialet from the region they were coming from so this people had the audacity not speaking Italian not knowing English to invent a knew word from sauce to gravy and in this country they should fix the dictionary because sauce is never gravy and never will be. Share your favorite recipe, and we may feature it on our website. Salsa, sugo, ragú are. Mom copied that and all was well even though it was her passion to use only Redpack canned tomatoes (from California) for her sauces. ‘The rest of the carcass can be used to make some game stock for gravy or soup, or freeze the carcass to use later.’ ‘Wholemeal breads, pizza bases, custard, gravy and sauces are all now made from scratch with fresh ingredients.’ ‘I prefer the traditional tomato sauce over the mushroom gravy… By: Dina Di Maio, ISDA Contributor. Grandmother put a whole onion in her sauce to flavor it but mostly to take away the acidity of the imported Italian tomatoes available in the 1950s and ’60’s. NY Times food editor Craig Claiborne wrote in 1979 that there was no difference, but the word sauce had a “more sophisticated ring to it.”. Meat Sauce). In the United States, depending on where you are, gravy can refer to a couple of different things. Typically referred to as a sauce but it wouldn’t be wrong to call it a gravy. I do remember my pop saying.. if there’s meat in the sauce it’s gravy. They would never call anything with tomatoes in, a gravy, it would always be called a sauce. brown gravy is for meat and mashed potatoes……GRAVY! The masala slop or base gravy can be prepared in advanced and frozen, and is much less daunting than it seems, and simpler than many of the recipes dictate. P.S. I grew up calling tomato sauce “gravy”. Its usally the 3 rd up generations! Nigel Slater’s mushroom gravy is intended for a Christmas turkey, but it will certainly work with chicken. The term British people use for what Americans consider to be cookies is 'biscuits.' Even if I use meat in my tomato sauce, I don’t add a thickener, and I cook it slow to a nice thick, rich texture and flavor or I bang it all into a hot pan and get a fresh, lively chunkier version.. I grew up calling it sauce, but as I got older and developed my own recipe, and learned more about my heritage and grandparents, I started calling it gravy. She made it twice a week with chicken, meatballs and sausage. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. UK's Bisto gravy American equivalent ? Italian American food and even customs, while they are based on aspects from the mother country, are uniquely American and were born out of the realities and limitations of living in North America. OK LET ME EXPLAIN, IT’S CALLED GRAVY ONLY IF IT HAS MEAT IN IT!!!! In 1902, an Italian woman described her tomato sauce as “gravy” in the New-York Daily Tribune, and Chef Boyardee canned his “sauce.”, But when did the divide become so hostile? The HBO series popularized Italian dialects, but the show only scratched the surface of our language's rich history. It’s a matter of preference. Uh, I don’t think Italians will take cooking lessons from the Brits… that would be like the Spaniards taking corrida lessons from the Swedish , If you go to Italy and ask for marinara sauce your going to get a sauce made with creatures of the sea marinara, marine. It was always called salsa. Pasties Both terms appear in 19th and early 20th century cookbooks, newspapers, menus, and advertising for American-type sauces/gravies. Same here! When your roast meat is ready for resting, you skim the fat off the cooking juices from the roasting pan and add the heavenly liquid to the gravy. And ragú (the one with ground meat) need to cook 2/2.5 hours, not all day as they do here. Because there is no meat in it. I hope you’ve enjoyed this lesson and thanks for reading. Since ragout and ragù are different food preparations, I think they are also different words. It was Pellegrino Artusi, the great chef to both King Emmanuel I and Emmanuel II, that said “If it’s made with meat, it’ Gravy and when it’s made plain, with fish or for pizza it’s a sauce.” Please look him up, He wrote the first recipe book in Italy, capturing each dish from all the different provinces of Italy. I call it sauce, and I call it gravy, as well. Learn British English vs American English words for foods. It’s “sugo” (any sauce for pasta, not necessarily tomato-based, or also the liquid left over from cooking meat, or fish, etc.) we now live all over the country. I was aware of Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts thanks to American television shows, and when I saw boxes of them stacked into a great pyramid at the end of aisle seven down our local Sainsbury’s, my excitement was almost too much to bear. It is a fact that large numbers of Italian Americans use this term. In the same article, scholar Nancy Carnevale wonders how the Neapolitan word for tomato sauce, ragù, translated to “gravy.” She says, “Gravy is such an English word, whereas the transition from salsa to sauce is not such a big change.”, But the word “gravy” is not such an English word and neither is “sauce.” Both come from the Anglo-French and can be found in Middle English in the 14th century where “gravy” has a number of spellings, including grave, grauey, and graue. Photo by Louis Magnotti on Unsplash. It gets even more confusing when you think of Bolognese. A single or double “r” in Neapolitan can mean there was a “g” at the beginning of the word. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a Sunday roast is usually served with gravy. It is all about the etymology of the words “gravy” and “ragù.”, As I said, gravy has a few spellings. Bill Tonelli wrote in Slate that the “gravy people will die out.” He interviews scholar Simone Cinotto who says that from 1900 to 1940 “gravy” was used very rarely in his sources. It’s easy to argue because both sides have great points for and against them. Uneducated New York Italians called it gravy trying to assimilate in the 1800’s. In the South it can mean a sauce made from sausage drippings, flour, and milk that is often poured over flaky buttermilk biscuits.If you are Italian-American, gravy (or Sunday gravy) might be the huge pot of tomato based ragù made on weekends for a big family gathering. It sounded like “Capra da cots”…, That is something my grandfather from Avellino said. (Bear in mind that Old French was the language of the Angevins, from Anjou, who were rulers of Naples in the 14th century.) Sugo (gravy) is thick and with meat. My opinion What should I call it? This is an awesome and thorough description. As per marinara, the only marinara thing in Italy is pizza, being with just tomato salsa and garlic. ” that has always bothered me. The word makes sense, as it directly translates to salsa, which Italians use more often. Now that you know where it came from, it’s time to pick a side! Enjoying life at 90 years of age. But the truth is there isn’t a common factor. Language evolves, it happens with all languages and all cultures. Whereas, if it had NO Meat, OR, had Seafood in it, we then called it SAUCE: Marinara Sauce…Clam Sauce…Crab Sauce…etc…Capisce?!? Lightly coating is a sauce. I don’t remember Grandmom, from Campagna calling it either. God I love my Italian heritage! In Neapolitan, a ragù is often spelled “rraù” (like in the Eduardo de Filippo poem). The other opinion is that it’s actually kind of cool to have a term unique to Italian-Americans. From what I’ve read and know, the sauce vs gravy debate in an American phenomenon. Cara Francis, my Papa was from Molfetta in Puglia. This is because American Biscuits aren’t anything like UK biscuits. Bottom line if it has meat it’s ok to say either, but no meat, it’s a sauce. All rights reserved. For example, grazie in Italian is razia in Neapolitan. However, the food of Italian Americans, as I write in my book, Authentic Italian, is primarily from Southern Italy, which had an oral tradition. Cookies are what American’t call UK biscuits. Your comment just perpetuates the stereotype that italian Americans are arrogant and full of themselves. It always sounded like the was a c instead of a g, but sugo and sauce were the only terms I ever heard. All I can say is I am SO glad that when Italians came to Australia they didn’t feel the need to change things to “assimilate.” They proudly kept their language, their culture, their Italian traditions. At the end of his journey, Artusi took his book to a publisher. All three! I choose red gravy term out of habit. You wouldn’t say a marinara gravy. I call it gravy because my grandparents called it that. My grand parents on both sides called it sogo (zoogoo). Although they wanted to keep their traditions and heritage, they desired to become accepted in the new country. 1st gen ital/amer. We are interested in hearing your comments! The dish consists of soft dough biscuits covered in either sawmill or meat gravy, made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, white flour, milk, and often (but not always) bits of sausage, bacon, ground beef, or other meat.The gravy is often flavored with black pepper This lead to a difference in opinion. No meat it’s sauce.. eg pizza sauce. How many jars of spaghetti sauce have you seen, “Spaghetti Gravy,” “Redpack Tomato Gravy”, “Spaghetti with meat gravy”, “Bolognese Gravy”, “Hunts Tomato Gravy”. Even the “Italian” food here has evolved. In English he called it “Gravy”. Both terms appear in 19 th and early 20 th century cookbooks, newspapers, menus, and advertising for American-type sauces/gravies. Both sets of my grandparents called it gravy so I will not call it anything else. Both camps insist only “real” Italians say the word they use. Gruongo, “eel,” ruongo. Some may resemble a more old-school gravy – starting with gravy granules, or thickening with cornflour. The BritishGram online supermarket delivered Worldwide, offers Free delivery in the UK and certain European countries. Pizza Gravy?? I grew up saying Gravy, My Grandparents on both sides cane from Italy, they called it Gravy, so it’s gravy for me. What do you think? Why gravy? Every cook has their own interpretation, though. Biscuits and gravy is a popular breakfast dish in the United States, especially in the South. MA what we havin for dinner? It is said ragù comes from ragout, but not only is ragout a stew, it derives from the French verb “ragoûter,” which probably had an “s” after the “u” because of the circumflex—as in the “ragoust” Jonathan Swift recommended in A Modest Proposal. I noticed the more americanized Italians say gravy. Many believe that because of this, “Gravy” should not even be an option. A gravy may also be the simple juices left in the pan after the meat, poultry, or fish has been cooked. Gravy is not an Italian word, we don’t even have the letter “y”, so I’m pretty sure that il signor Artusi did not use that word. Al's Kitchen also does a very credible British Indian Restaurant "base gravy" Here we have: big onions, garlic and ginger paste, tomatoes, bit of old cabbage, turnip. After researching, I could write a book on the subject, and I’ll post a longer piece on my blog. I’m not sure about you, but if I was new in America trying to fit in… I certainly wouldn’t invite people over for ragout! Some say it depends on what color it is. A classic gravy is the combination of meat juices left in the pan, thickened with a roux and extended with stock. I grew up calling it gravy if it had meat in it and sauce if it did not.. Our family calls it sauce or sugo, not gravy, but we are Italian-Canadian, not Italian-American. One of the South’s signature dishes, biscuits and gravy can be enjoyed at any time of day. Some versions had meat in it, some other red gravies were meatless. Join the conversation, and share recipes, travel tips and stories. SAUCE DOES NOT HAVE TO COOK FOR HOURS, GRAVY HAS TOO. From what gather the first and second generation italian dont call it gravy. Lots of fun. Make the pledge and become a member of Italian Sons and Daughters of America today! Why Italians Argue About The Term. Now when you start a tomato sauce with the drippings of meats ah ha you now have red GRAVY does that make any sense to those of you who call it marinara sauce? I was born in Genova, northern Italy. This is exactly what the article explains, there is no word for gravy in Italian. He also called the white stuff “macaronsies”…..lol. In our New York Italian family we call Sunday Gravy, Gravy because it has a variety of meats in it and cooked for a few hours. If you call this gravy what do you call the red stuff on pizza? There is none. In the UK, you’d call those things trousers. From what I’ve read and know, the sauce vs gravy debate in an American phenomenon. But I think both sauce and gravy are correct. I use the standard English ‘tomato sauce’ in all other contexts. During the Americanization process, there was a confusion with the word “Ragu” (A.K.A. No one knows exactly how it started, but every Italian American knows what side they're on. If you translate “Sugo” to English you get “Sauce” but when you translate “Ragú” to English you get “Ragout.” Ragout is a French-styled stew. For most Italians, this meant learning English! 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