lovestocook

I just read the other day that the reason we season our New Year's Day black-eyed peas with ham hock is because pork is symbolic of the future. Pigs root forward while chickens scratch backwards. We want to look towards the future rather than back into the past. The peas symbolize coins and the collard greens symbolize paper money, you need both, but I have never heard of a true southern recipe that combined greens and black-eyed peas.