November 2023

Gravy Season

I'VE always thought of gravy as typically American (in a dowii-home kind of a way.) I come from a very gravycentric culture. Generations of my ancestors on both sides were farmers in Tennessee and Texas, where gravy functions as kind of a cultural glue that, unites all aspects of society. My mom made several versions that, she learned from her mother and mother-in-law. The most, common was the cream one we had with fried chicken and chicken- fried steak, followed closely by the classic brown sauce she made from post-church roast beef on Sundays and redeye gravy she served with baked ham.

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