No I wasn¹t too brilliant at gravy at first either, but it may help to know that good gravy making is not a gift like, say, green fingers. It just something you have to know a little bit about.

I'm really good at cooking roast dinners but I can't make gravy - my husband has to do it. Nigel, please tell me how you make perfect gravy.

Said a Mississippi conventioneer: “It’s just a case of taking the gravy while it’s good.” Nevertheless, delegates wondered how long the gravy train could keep running. They discussed ways ...