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Title: How to make black-eyed peas for good luck in the new year
Source:
The Times-Picayune
URL Source: http://www.nola.com/food/index.ssf/ ... g_black-eyed_peas_for_new.html
Published: Dec 24, 2014
Author: Judy Walker
Post Date: 2014-12-30 22:47:52 by X-15
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Views: 113
Comments: 6
In the South, it's traditional to eat black-eyed peas on New Year's Day for good luck in the coming year. I grew up in Arkansas and Oklahoma doing so. When I moved out West in 1980, I was stunned to find very few people who even knew what a black-eyed pea was. For years we had big black-eyed pea parties on New Year's Day, and we made a lot of fans with this recipe. Our friends back in Arizona still have black-eyed pea parties on New Year's Day. Hopping John is the dish known elsewhere in the South that combines black-eyed peas, also known as cow peas, with rice. In New Orleans, where the long-standing rule is to serve rice with every dish, this would just be called "black-eyed peas," as my friends Lynette observed.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Yuk.
I agree, Cyni. I hate black-eyed peas.
Wees comin'
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#4. To: Cynicom (#1)
#5. To: All (#4)
Did someone mention black-eyed peas?
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