Writer documenting life in New Orleans 9th Ward. I'm eating 500 po boys at 500 different restaurants, gas stations, corner stores and cafes in New Orleans

Category: Recipes

Chocolate Gravy Is The Result of Spanish-Era Louisiana Traders Making Their Way To Appalachia

Louisiana is gravy country
Kentucky is gravy country.
Texas is gravy country.

As you traverse the upper end of the South, make your way down into Dixie and then head out west to the Great State, you’ll find dozens of regional variations on this simple, humble sauce. We pour it over our chicken fried steak, we fry up Jimmy Dean sausage and make a gravy that’s perfect for our biscuits; and a bowl of mashed potatoes served without gravy? That might just find the cook on the business end of a rusty shank. Gravy is serious business.

The Rules of Texas Red

editor’s note: this is an article I posted in the early days of the Scrumptious Chef site]

Out here in Austin, Texas it’s getting hard to find a good bowl of chili.

How can that be?

Well I can tell you, your prospects of sitting down to a big bowl of pho are decidedly more rosy than finding a competent bowl of Texas-style chili.

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