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From slow-cooked pork to cabbage with black-eyed peas, families share traditional foods said to bring good luck when eaten on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.
It took Texas to make America swallow the idea of lucky New Year’s black-eyed peas. More than 85 years ago, in 1937, an East Texas promoter put the first national marketing campaign behind what ...
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 ...
Sauerkraut, along with pork, is eaten traditionally in Pennsylvania on New Year's Day. The tradition, started by the Pennsylvania Dutch, is thought to bring good luck for the upcoming year. [24] Sauerkraut is also used in American cuisine as a condiment upon various foods, such as sandwiches and hot dogs.
The tradition behind eating certain foods on New Year's Eve or on New Year's Day (and sometimes at the stroke of midnight) is the belief that eating these foods will ensure the coming year will be a good one and the superstition that not eating those foods will leave one vulnerable to bad luck. [2] [3]
On New Year's Eve (referred to as Old Year's Night in Guyana and Suriname), families cook a traditional dish called cook-up rice. The dish comprises rice, black-eyed peas, and other peas and a variety of meats cooked in coconut milk and seasonings. According to tradition, cook-up rice should be the first thing consumed in the New Year for good ...
Eating 12 grapes at midnight to ring in the new year is a Spanish tradition that is hundreds of years old, according to Vogue. It is practiced across the Caribbean, South America and other ...
The Oxford English Dictionary's first reference to the dish is from Frederick Law Olmsted's 19th century travelogue, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1861). [8] A recipe for "Hopping John" in The Carolina Housewife by Sarah Rutledge, [9] which was published in 1847, is also cited as the earliest reference. [10]