Americans eat black-eyed peas for New Year's to bring about good fortune in the coming year. But that's the short answer. The long one involves a shared family tradition that celebrates the legume ...

For 20 years, Ann Taylor Pittman built a career of creating healthy recipes at Cooking Light magazine, where she most recently served as Executive Editor. She is the recipient of two James Beard ...

Black-eyed peas -- the legume, not will.i.am and company -- may be best known as a lucky food to eat for New Year's Day. As their legend goes, since they resemble coins, they'll attract more of ...

Try a taste of the Spanish-rooted fruit method or a Southern staple. As green grapes and other lucky foods to eat as the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve fill social media feeds with must ...

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As green grapes and other lucky foods to eat as the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve fill social media feeds with must-add items for a last-minute grocery list, you may be curious about the ...

Bonnetta Adeeb, president and founder of the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, is not only advocating to get more cowpeas back into circulation, but she's proselytizing to make sure the peas’ ...

Will.i.am was born on March 15, 1975, in Eastside Los Angeles, California, and was raised by his single mother, Debra, in the ...

RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – The holidays are just about over by now. Perhaps the last of the big traditions was celebrated at lunch on New Year’s Day. The reason for eating black-eyed peas ...