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Restaurant chains specializing in biscuits and gravy include Biscuitville, in Virginia and North Carolina, and Tudor’s Biscuit World, in West Virginia. Tomato gravy is white gravy mixed with crushed or diced tomatoes. Food Is At The Very Soul Of U. Blacks’ History Since Days Of Slavery”. The New Encyclopedia of Southern culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. A gravy with a questionable past”.