Some eat black-eyed peas for good luck while some consider the New Year's tradition about abundance, prosperity and a shared history.

A major New Year’s food tradition in the American South, Hoppin’ John is a dish of pork-flavored field peas or black-eyed ...

Black-eyed peas: These beans, a type of field pea, are the heart of the dish and believed to bring luck and prosperity. Dried ...

Bonnetta Adeeb sighs heavily when she hears the term “cowpea.” Seconds pass while she decides how to respond. Will it be the ...

Like many staples of Southern cuisine, black-eyed peas were brought to North America by enslaved Africans through the ...

Whip up a bowl of this light and refreshing salad in about five minutes flat. Bonus: It might bring you luck in the new year.

Native to North Africa, black eyed peas found their way to the mouths of Black Americans by way of the transatlantic slave trade. European slavers fed enslaved people the beans wh ...

The hearty, healthy combination of black-eyed peas and greens is good and good for you for New Year's Day and throughout the winter months.

Playing spades under the smooth, lifting flow of old-school R&B, the air thick with the warm embrace of soul food’s aroma, feels like the perfect low-key New Year’s Eve. Yet it’s more than just a ...