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Black-eyed peas

Call it tradition or superstition, given the course of the first two years of this decade, partaking of some food thought to bring good fortune on the first day of the new year can’t be a bad idea, right?

In America, the best-known New Year’s Day good luck dish is probably black-eyed peas and greens. According to historians, this traditionally southern meal originated either from African slaves or Sephardic Jewish immigrants to Georgia in the…