Tag: New Years Black Eyed Pea Salad

New Year’s  Day Traditions and  Black-Eyed Pea Salad

New Year’s Day Traditions and Black-Eyed Pea Salad

As the old Southern New Year’s saying goes, “Peas for pennies, greens for dollars, cornbread for gold.” In other words, these foods, when eaten on New Year’s Day, promise prosperity.  My mother was in the black-eyed-pea school of Southern New Year’s cooks. I always wondered…