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New Year's Day, people throughout the South found eating peas and black eyes. Many southerners have extended this tradition in other parts of the country. If this tradition is new to you, you probably have many questions - how the tradition started? What foods symbolize? How can I cook? Here are some answers to get you started.

Eating black-eyed peas on New Year's good luck for at least 1500 years. According to a part of the Talmud, written around 500 AD, was the Jewish custom of eating black-eyed peas in the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It is possible that the tradition came to America with the Sephardic Jews, who first came to Georgia in the 1730s in common folklore says that the tradition distributed after the Civil War. The northern army has examined the black-eyed peas agree that for animals, so do not remove or destroy crops.

There are a variety of explanations for the symbolism of black-eyed peas. The first is that the consumption of these legumes is simple modesty and lack of vanity. The humble nature cowpeas is the old expression, busy "bad food in the new year, and fat eat the rest of the year." Another explanation is that vaguely resemble grains parts. Another is that, because the beans are significantly expand in volume, symbolizing the growth of wealth.

Obviously, many people associate closely luck with making money. This is where the greens are (if you have to say, green is the color of the dollar). Each green light, but the most common options are kale, turnip or mustard. Or corn meal often the new year in the South and a well-known term "Peas for pennies, the Greens for the dollar, and corn bread for gold." Added pork is a staple of virtually every meal south, which is usually cooked with black-eyed peas. Pork it seems more than symbolic taste, but some suggest that because pigs are looking in search of food is pork anchored the positive movement.

There is no official way to prepare only black-eyed peas 1 January a popular dish is Hoppin 'John, a mixture of Black Eyed Peas, rice and bacon or ham hock. Some people throw a penny in the pot, and believe that around the dime in the hand gets very best of luck for the coming year.

New Year recipes

Southern corn bread
Hoppin John