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As we prepare to ring in 2021
A New Years is coming...and a New decade
Understand what might or should be cooking in your Kitchen has Been a long Standing Southern Tradition with a sobering reminder to us all...
Enjoy a good bowl of black eye peas is one thing but know there meaning makes it that much better
A story that you might hear a lot as New Year is approaching. A story that should be retold and reminded to us every year
Why does Southerns eat Black Eye Peas on New Years Day?
What Is In Your Kitchen?
The story of the Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas as the first meal on New Year's Day is generally believed to date back the winter of 1864 - 1865 during the later part of the of Southern Independence.
When Union General William T. Sherman led his invading troops on their destructive march through Georgia, the fields of black-eyed peas were largely left untouched because they were deemed fit only for animals.
The Union foragers took everything, plunder the land, and left what they could not take burning or in shambles.
But one thing did remain the lonely peas and good Ol Southern salted pork.
As a result, the humble yet nourishing black-eyed pea saved surviving Southerners - mainly women, children and the disabled veterans of the Confederate army - from mass starvation and were thereafter regarded as a symbol of good luck.
The peas are said to represent good fortune. Certainly, the starving Southern families and soldiers were fortunate to have those meager supplies.
According to the tradition and folklore, the peas are served with several other dishes that symbolically represent good fortune, wealth and prosperity in the coming year. Some folks still traditionally cook the black-eyed peas with a silver dime in the pot as a symbol of good fortune.
Greens represent wealth and paper money. Any greens will do, but in the South, the most popular are collards, mustard greens, turnip greens, and boiled cabbage.
Cornbread - a regular staple mean among Southerners in absence of wheat - symbolizes gold and is very good for soaking up the juice from the greens on the plate.
Good for dinner and in the morning with syrup
Pork symbolizes bountiful prosperity and then progressing into the year ahead. Ham and hog jowls are typical with the New Year meal, though sometimes bacon will work too.
Stewed tomatoes are often eaten with this meal as well. They represent health and wealth.
This is just of few of rich Southern New Year Traditions
I hope you reflect on those stories when you sit down at your family table this coming year
Enjoy this humble uniquely Southern meal every New Years Day. Be thankful for what this year did give you and better days that are coming ahead of you
It was what your Southern Kinfolk DID and reflected upon every year.
Time is coming to get the Southern Smell a cooking
In all things and Holidays keep true to your Southern Roots
Well I made my Southern themed New YEar meal.......
A New Years is coming...and a New decade
Understand what might or should be cooking in your Kitchen has Been a long Standing Southern Tradition with a sobering reminder to us all...
Enjoy a good bowl of black eye peas is one thing but know there meaning makes it that much better
A story that you might hear a lot as New Year is approaching. A story that should be retold and reminded to us every year
Why does Southerns eat Black Eye Peas on New Years Day?
What Is In Your Kitchen?
The story of the Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas as the first meal on New Year's Day is generally believed to date back the winter of 1864 - 1865 during the later part of the of Southern Independence.
When Union General William T. Sherman led his invading troops on their destructive march through Georgia, the fields of black-eyed peas were largely left untouched because they were deemed fit only for animals.
The Union foragers took everything, plunder the land, and left what they could not take burning or in shambles.
But one thing did remain the lonely peas and good Ol Southern salted pork.
As a result, the humble yet nourishing black-eyed pea saved surviving Southerners - mainly women, children and the disabled veterans of the Confederate army - from mass starvation and were thereafter regarded as a symbol of good luck.
The peas are said to represent good fortune. Certainly, the starving Southern families and soldiers were fortunate to have those meager supplies.
According to the tradition and folklore, the peas are served with several other dishes that symbolically represent good fortune, wealth and prosperity in the coming year. Some folks still traditionally cook the black-eyed peas with a silver dime in the pot as a symbol of good fortune.
Greens represent wealth and paper money. Any greens will do, but in the South, the most popular are collards, mustard greens, turnip greens, and boiled cabbage.
Cornbread - a regular staple mean among Southerners in absence of wheat - symbolizes gold and is very good for soaking up the juice from the greens on the plate.
Good for dinner and in the morning with syrup
Pork symbolizes bountiful prosperity and then progressing into the year ahead. Ham and hog jowls are typical with the New Year meal, though sometimes bacon will work too.
Stewed tomatoes are often eaten with this meal as well. They represent health and wealth.
This is just of few of rich Southern New Year Traditions
I hope you reflect on those stories when you sit down at your family table this coming year
Enjoy this humble uniquely Southern meal every New Years Day. Be thankful for what this year did give you and better days that are coming ahead of you
It was what your Southern Kinfolk DID and reflected upon every year.
Time is coming to get the Southern Smell a cooking
In all things and Holidays keep true to your Southern Roots
Well I made my Southern themed New YEar meal.......
