Biscuits with Sausage Gravy

At diners, roadside restaurants, and family restaurants throughout the South, “biscuits ’n’ gravy” refers either to fried sausage patties between split biscuits covered with a thickened pan brown gravy or to fried country ham and split biscuits with red-eye gravy. Both are quintessential breakfast dishes that uphold the Southern tradition of starting the day with “serious food.” No matter where I travel, I never fail to search for places that serve one or the other—with, of course, some sty