Nowadays, in 2013, everyone calls pasta sauce "sauce". No doubt about it.
However, those of us who were born in the 1940's or prior....and who have childhood memories of the 1950's.......and perhaps those whose grandmothers came from southern Italy, as mine did, remember the nonna (grandmother) or zia (aunt) calling it "gravy". I'm talking "Little Italy" New York City, circa 1940's, 1950's, etc.
They all arrived in the late 1880's from the mountainous regions of southern Italy.
My dad called it gravy and my mom called it gravy. The next generation began calling it sauce. We still call it sauce, but they called it gravy.
They also called pasta "macaroni" no matter..........
Nowadays we all call it pasta and sauce. No doubt about it.
But, back in the day..........they all called it GRAVY.
Sunday Gravy was with all the meats. We've run over this explanation before......
As someone else wisely states , it doesn't really matter what one calls it.........home made sauce/gravy is delicious. The kind you want to dip your bread right into the pot for..........
I am guilty of renewing this thread when I found another recipe for Sunday Gravy on the Francesco Rinaldi website..........and posted it as an added thought to the original thread............by the way, we were raised in New Jersey, but still, all of the oldtimers (grandparents of friends of mine) back in the 1950's still called it GRAVY.
Today we all call it pasta sauce.
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