Sausage and Tomato Ragù with Pasta

When Italian Americans refer to a tomato-meat sauce as “gravy,” this ragù is what they’re talking about. Brimming with sausage, wine, and meat broth, it is a sauce distilled from meat—cooked so slowly that the essences of meat and tomato literally merge. To the uninitiated, conditioned by commercial pasta sauces to believe that meat sauce is just tomato sauce flavored with meat, this brush with authenticity is a revelation. Try it at your own risk; you may never be able to go back to jarred