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do you cut spaghetti with a knife?

Mmmmmmmm. Bracciole. We didn’t have it very often but when we did, oh boy. Same with cheese ravioli.
 
Heinlein stumbled onto that maxim with "an armed society is a polite society". I think he meant it approvingly, but a survey of cultures where decorum and politeness are de rigeur (Korea, Japan, medieval Europe, Quatorze France, England, the Old Confederacy, the Bay Area) might suggest an alternative reading: politeness is an adjunct of war and stasis.
 
I've never heard this phrasing in Boston, Providence, Portland or any other part of New England, either.
 
I still make Sunday Gravy from scratch every 6 weeks or so - on Sundays!!!!!. I usually have to tell people what it is when I talk about it.


Years back a friend in Ohio came across this cookbook somewhere, can’t recall where, and bought it for me.

 
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Years back a friend in Ohio came across this cookbook somewhere, can’t recall where, and bought it for me.

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Real Sunday gravy takes six weeks to make.

Actually is takes less than that. But Italian American comedian Pat Cooper said his mom started Sunday gravy on Tuesday. In reality it can be a 3+ hour process.
 
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