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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.
Pork symbolizes good health and luck across Europe. "Because pigs root forward with their snout and feet (or) hooves," Miller explains. This recipe from Dani Spies takes just 15 minutes of prep time.
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Lentils, the most common of which are greenish-brown disks, are considered to resemble the coins of ancient Rome and are symbolic of good luck and prosperity. [30] [4] [31] In Italy, dishes of lentils and sausage, also sliced into disks, are typical New Year food. [30] One common dish is Cotechino con lenticchie, believed to bring good luck. [4]
In Romania, the local type of sauerkraut ("varza murata" = whole pickled cabbage heads) are used as wrap for the national dish called "Sarmale", a Turkish-inspired roll, made of pickled cabbage leaves with minced pork and rice, having its own personality and very distinct in taste from its Ottoman predecessor. [citation needed]
"If you say 'Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit' the first thing when you wake up in the morning on the first of each month you will have good luck all month." Collected by Wayland D. Hand in Pennsylvania before 1964. [20] "Say 'Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit' at the first of the month for good luck and money." Collected by Ernest W. Baughman in New Mexico before ...
Fermented cabbage is good for the gut. Cabbage’s crispy texture makes it perfect for fermenting in a brine. Soaking cabbage in a salt brine encourages the growth of good bacteria, otherwise ...
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive.