Staples

The best traditions start without even realizing that they’re going to happen year after year. One year, I’m not even sure how long ago, my mom and I decided to go pick apples and make apple sauce from scratch. And then we just kept doing …

Is it sauce or gravy? That is the question amongst American-Italian families in New Jersey and maybe elsewhere but I don’t get out much. Until growing up I had never even heard of delicious crushed and seasoned tomatoes being called gravy. Gravy was a brown …