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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.
Whether it's to accomplish all those New Year's resolutions or just have a prosperous 2025, every culture has its New Year's traditions, but some might stand out more than others.
Ozoni, a special, miso-based soup enjoyed on New Year's Day in Japan, symbolizes luck. "It's made with mochi," Noguchi says. "And filled with vegetables that all have meaning."
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]
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]
In Japanese households, families eat buckwheat soba noodles, or toshikoshi soba, at midnight on New Year’s Eve to bid farewell to the year gone by and welcome the year to come. The tradition ...
Royal House of the Post Office clock tower, Puerta del Sol, Madrid The twelve grapes ready to be eaten. The Twelve Grapes [1] (Spanish: las doce uvas (de la suerte), lit. 'the twelve grapes (of luck)') is a Spanish tradition that consists of eating a grape with each of the twelve clock bell strikes at midnight of 31 December to welcome the New Year.
As the tradition goes, one grape represents each month in a calendar year and the idea is at the strike of midnight, to eat each before the clock hits 12:01.