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sugo
sauce or gravy
On pasta, can be used for any meat, fish or vegetable sauce—often tomato sauce, sugo di pomodoro. Can also mean the cooking liquid, or gravy (sugo di carne).
Plain pasta al sugo, however, almost always means with a tomato sauce.
Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
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