Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I can vividly remember eating black-eyed peas for the first time, sitting down at a long table in the house where I grew up in ...

If New Year’s Eve is about celebration, New Year’s Day is imbued with superstition. Every year on January 1, a peculiar assortment of historic rituals are performed as a way to invite good fortune for ...

What are you supposed to eat on New Year's Day? For many North Texans, the answer is black-eyed peas. The New Year's Day food tradition of eating black-eyed peas is meant to bring good luck to diners.

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Black-eyed peas and cabbage are a New Year’s Eve tradition across the American south, but these dishes with distinctly separate heritages are bound together because ...

I can vividly remember eating black-eyed peas for the first time, sitting down at a long table in the house where I grew up in Louisiana. Usually, it's hard to date such an early, hazy childhood ...