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

The new year brings the Southern tradition of eating collard greens and field peas to bring good luck and prosperity for the coming year. (The greens represent cash while the peas symbolize coins.

There’s nothing like freshly shelled field peas, a culinary icon in the canon of Southern cooking. Flash-frozen ones are a solid runner-up, evoking the same freshness in a way that dried or ...