Good Gravy! — 13 Classic American Gravies & How to Serve Them

The USA has a gravy for just about every meal

Paul Thomas Zenki
Thinkpiece Magazine
13 min readJan 29, 2022

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Sliced roast lamb on a plate with mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, a rosemary sprig, and a clear brown gravy
Lamb with rosemary gravy (photo by Amanda Dilnot)

I was having a conversation with some Brits recently and they dropped a real bomb on me. Apparently, in the UK there’s only one kind of gravy.

As an American and a Southerner, this was just heartbreaking. It’s like finding out there’s a nation where everybody…

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Paul Thomas Zenki
Thinkpiece Magazine

Ghost writer, essayist, marketer, Zen Buddhist, academic refugee, living in Athens GA, blogging at A Quiet Normal Life: https://www.quietnormal.com/