Frank Pellegrino Jr, of Rao's Restaurant Group in New York City, talks us through his popular Sunday gravy. #food #foodporn #newyork #Italian
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Sounds great!
“What is Sunday gravy?” Well, I’m still wondering.
I think you have to watch the full video
It’s what Italian-Americans call a sauce.
@mndr1983that’s confusing
@uioplkhjnot for Italian Americans.
If you ever see those scenes where American Italians talk about ‘gravy’ their either talkin money or tomato sauce lol
Great story. Very similar to the memories I have. Thanks for sharing.
Ragú a la napolitana
Beatings for stealing meatballs….. I love it.❤🎉
Cool, so what is it?
I got a lot of smacked hands for stealing meetballs
Cool story … but back to the question… WTH IS SUNDAY GRAVY??
Its something you make when you re poor but still stupid enough to have more than 2 kids
Since this short doesn’t actually explain what “totally legit italian grocery store sauce Rao’s totally like nonna used to make bro only 6.99” Sunday Gravy is — Sunday Gravy is a slow simmered heartily seasoned tomato sauce that includes several types of meat (usually whatever you had leftover/laying around). Your stereotypical 8 hour grandma ragu or spaghetti sauce? That’s Sunday Gravy. It’s actually an interesting subject because it highlights the difference between italian american and old world italian cooking based on what was available to the respective chefs. You don’t find the heavy meat sauces as much in traditional italian cuisine, because the meal in the old world was the pasta or whatever you put the sauce on. In America the meal was the sauce (gravy) and the carbohydrate was the accompaniment, due to how much cheaper meat and tomato’s were.
Lmaooo 💀 thanks for the explanation!
I mean Raos is a world famous restaurant in NYC soooo, ig you can call it store sauce lol. Its been open since 1896 so it aint like the sauce came first
Depending on what region of Italy your people came from it’s the same thing as Sunday sauce, the two ways Italians say “sauce” in Italian are salsa and/or sugo. Both words translate as “sauce” but never as “gravy.” Ragù doesn’t even translate as “gravy” but comes close enough since it involves meat which is what people really mean when they say “gravy”
As a full blooded Italian from Chicago, it’s called “gravy”. I have no idea what the names you suggest even mean. Both my parents spoke Italian and they never used those words. That’s how you know somebody isn’t really Italian. They will call a tomato sauce something besides gravy. Btw, if you call it “marinara” sauce you should get two to the head and two to the heart.
“Whats sunday gravy?”
“Anyway, here’s how i got abused as a child”
Disciplined*
Tell me you’re soft without telling me
Gotta know not to eat everybody’s fkn food lol
Haha he so out of pocket
Soft
Having difficulty finding the full video. Please post a link to the full recipe… Thanks
You good fam?
Only Sunday? Man, i got 7 days a week type of gravy 💦
Sunday gravy=pasta sauce
Well that ended on a depressing note … “I was beat for trying to eat as a kid! Hilarious!”
I can remember hearing my grandmas voice standing on the front porch “Niiiiiccolo!!”
Crazy part is that she was in NY and I was in Miami. Still got him in 10 minutes.
But this meal is so expensive to make now 😩
Love this! So nostalgic
Lovely memories of nonna. 🥰🥰🥰