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Why do we eat black-eyed peas on New Year's?

Americans eat black-eyed peas for New Year's to bring about good fortune in the coming year. But that's the short answer. The long one involves a shared family tradition that celebrates the legume's ...
The New York Times

Warming Black-Eyed Peas to Welcome New Year’s Fortunes

David Tanis pairs his rich recipe with a bright cabbage salad and finishes it with some unforgettable spiced apple fritters. By David Tanis Eating black-eyed peas augurs good luck and good fortune for ...
Civil Eats

Grow. Cook. Grub. Featuring Smoky Black-eyed Peas

Smoky Black-eyed PeasYield: 8 to 10 servings Soundtrack: “Money Jungle” by Duke Ellington With Charles Mingus & Max Roach from Money Jungle If you’ve read my first book, Grub, you already know that ...
WKRG

Black-eyed peas and cabbage are more than a southern tradition

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Black-eyed peas and cabbage are a New Year’s Eve tradition across the American south, but these dishes with distinctly separate heritages are bound together because ...
New York Post

Cracker Barrel abandons beloved New Year’s dish without any kind of warning

For generations across the South, black-eyed peas have traditionally been served on New Year’s Day. The dish is associated with a “mystical and mythical power to bring good luck” in the year ahead, ...
WTVF

Nashvillians talk about their New Year's Day black eyed peas traditions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Something about this time of year, you hear a lot of people sharing their New Year's traditions. A whole lot of people seem to have the same favorite dishes for each January ...