(JTA) — Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am feels at home in Israel — so much so that he used a Yiddish word to describe the feeling he gets in the country. While on a visit to Israel to ...

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 ...

Texas wildcatters Sid Richardson and Clint Murchison ate black-eyed peas and quail for breakfast, and their oil fortune added up in the billions. You might not be so lucky. But luck starts with ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Black-eyed peas and cabbage are a New Year’s Eve tradition across the American south, but these dishes with distinctly separate heritages are bound together ...

Black-eyed peas and cabbage are a New Year's Eve tradition across the American south, but these dishes with distinctly separate heritages are bound together because southerners chose to defy status ...

New Year tradition of eating black-eyed peas at midnight There's a Southern food tradition involving black-eyed peas that dates back to the Civil War, which many believe is a way to attract ...

Traditionally, black-eyed peas and greens are eaten on New Year's Day — preferably as the first meal of the year. The peas symbolize coins, and the greens represent money, both believed to bring ...

In this column, Susi Gott Seguret explores black-eyed peas' significance to Appalachia, which helped keep livestock healthy during the Civil War.

For generations, cabbage, black-eyed peas and other symbolic foods have been a staple of New Year’s celebrations in the South. But why do we eat these particular foods, and what do they mean?