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Sunday Gravy

Christina Pirello shares healthy, fresh Italian and Mediterranean recipes as well as her brassy, insightful approach to liver, kidney and heart health and diabetes prevention. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1983, Christina turned to a macrobiotic diet of whole grains and vegetables to aid in her recovery, launching the 20-plus year run of her Emmy Award-winning series Christina Cooks.

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Sunday Gravy

Season 5 Episode 511 | 26m 46s | CC

Many know it as tomato sauce, but in the in Italian-American households of the Northeast in the USA, that luscious, thick, richly flavored tomato concoction simmering away for hours is known as gravy. Why is this dish so important to the Italian culture? Christina visits a Tuscan vineyard and discovers the truest tradition for making this cherished traditional gravy...or sauce.

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