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Additionally, its prolonged simmering process was ideal for weekend cooking, making it a staple in many households by the mid-20th century. Then it underwent its Americanized name change, as mentioned above, becoming known as “gravy,” and it has since become a beloved tradition among Italian families to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite these adaptations, there were only a few minor alterations made to the original recipe. Spaghetti emerged as the preferred pasta, instead of tagliatelle<\/em>, and meat was incorporated into the sauce rather than served on the side. Other than these minor tweaks, Sunday gravy is essentially Neapolitan rag\u00f9 in every way except for its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the discussion about Italian-American food, you simply can\u2019t avoid the \u201cItalian Gravy or Sauce?\u201d debate, as tiresome as it is. Every Facebook group dedicated to Italian-Americans has been forced to endure these pointless arguments. But hold on a minute. Is there actually something to this, perhaps? Let\u2019s try to dissect the linguistic origins of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}