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You're listening to a way with words. I'm Martha Barnett.

This week we're going through the email bag and here's a sensory savory one from Stacy in Boulder, Colorado.

Stacy grew up out west, but she says she spent summers and Christmases at the home of her maternal

grandparents just north of New York City.

This side of my family, she writes, is unapologetically Italian. For me, a highlight of every visit was the night of arrival.

My grandmother would welcome us home with a big pot of gravy.

After the day long trip to get there, Stacy writes, nothing was more comforting or

restoring than walking into a grandma-sized hug and a house positively perfumed with the sweet heady scent of garlic and tomatoes.

Now about that pot of gravy, Stacy writes,

in Colorado or anywhere else I've been, it's called Marineras sauce.

Outside of my family, I've never heard the word gravy used to describe anything other

than the brown gravy you put on the turkey at Thanksgiving.

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