New Years food traditions?
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 2:19 pm
There were none in my immediate family. We didn't entertain at home at all, and there was never any company or any parties we went to. My grandmother, a quietly devout Christian Scientist, would often come over, as she did at most holidays, and join in whatever we were doing, which was mostly watching the Rose Parade and just hanging out. So with all of that it was something of a surprise to learn much later that at home she had all along observed a private little tradition of eating black eyed peas for breakfast on New Years Day, and that she would carefully count each one she ate and not stop until she'd consumed exactly 365 of them for luck each day of the coming year.
Of course I then learned from my Texan husband that variations of this, though not usually as dogmatic, are not uncommon in the South. And so I adopted this practice, too. I don't count the peas, but a bowl of black eyed peas is a typical New Years Day lunch for us.
Any traditions at your house?
Of course I then learned from my Texan husband that variations of this, though not usually as dogmatic, are not uncommon in the South. And so I adopted this practice, too. I don't count the peas, but a bowl of black eyed peas is a typical New Years Day lunch for us.
Any traditions at your house?