Today I learned about apple butter and red-eye gravy. I’m not from the South. I’d heard of apple butter before but I assumed it was a regional term for apple sauce. How wrong I was. Apple butter is apple sauce cooked down until the sugar in it caramelizes. So it’s spreadable like a butter and, I can imagine, pretty sweet! My red-eye gravy education began with Kathryn’s photo of some lovely ham at Momofuku Ssäm Bar. I asked what the condiment was in the photo and her response was “Red Eye Coffee gravy.” So I immediately turned to Wikipedia for the lowdown on red-eye gravy. It is made from the drippings of the pan-fried ham, mixed with water or coffee, sometimes thickened with flour. And it reportedly “packs a punch.”