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Orange-scented olive cake. Ring in 2024 with one or all of these food traditions said to bring good luck in the new year. Try some black-eyed peas for prosperity, grapes for good fortune or long ...
From slow-cooked pork to cabbage with black-eyed peas, families share traditional foods said to bring good luck when eaten on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.
Pork symbolizes good health and luck across Europe. "Because pigs root forward with their snout and feet (or) hooves," Miller explains. This recipe from Dani Spies takes just 15 minutes of prep time.
Lentils, the most common of which are greenish-brown disks, are considered to resemble the coins of ancient Rome and are symbolic of good luck and prosperity. [30] [4] [31] In Italy, dishes of lentils and sausage, also sliced into disks, are typical New Year food. [30] One common dish is Cotechino con lenticchie, believed to bring good luck. [4]
Osechi is a food eaten to wish the family good health for the year, and the various dishes that make up osechi have their own roles to bring good luck in terms of longevity, prosperity of descendants, bountiful harvest, success in life, and financial success. [2]
Vasilopita (Greek: Βασιλόπιτα, Vasilópita, lit.'(St.) Basil-pie' or 'Vassilis pie', see below) is a New Year's Day bread, cake or pie in Greece and many other areas in eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East which contains a hidden coin or trinket which gives good luck to the receiver, like the Western European King Cake.
Whether or not you believe eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day will bring you good luck, they are an undeniably underrated bean. What makes black-eyed peas so special? “Black-eyed peas ...
A fortune cookie is a crisp and sugary cookie wafer made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside, a "fortune", an aphorism, or a vague prophecy.