Darrach Bourke is an accomplished San Francisco Bay Area financial advisor who has worked at Emerson Equity since 2016. He is also a broker-dealer and a registered investment advisor. Outside of work, Darrach Bourke likes to cook Italian pasta with ragu or Bolognese sauce.

Because ragu and Bolognese are red sauces that include meat, many people have used the terms interchangeably. However, Bolognese sauce is a type of ragu, meaning that all Bolognese sauces are ragu but not all ragu is Bolognese sauce.

Ragu is a broad term that encompasses all meat-based Italian red sauces, including wine, minced tomato, and vegetables. Bolognese sauce is a particular formulation of ragu that takes its name from its city of origin: Bologna. It first arose in this Northern Italian cultural mecca in the 15th century.

Compared with the average ragu, Bolognese sauce has less minced tomato. It also includes only white wine and a certain amount of milk or cream.