Start your new year off right with a favorite Southern New Year’s Day and Wa Na Wari tradition. Every New Year’s Day we invite the community to join us for black-eyed peas and greens. Take your plate home or stay and enjoy a meal among friends. Both the black-eyed peas and the greens are vegan.
Grab a plate or stay and chill
Free event At Wa Na Wari, 911 24th Ave. in Seattle’s Central District
New Year food folklores on black-eyed peas and greens include:
- Eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day brings good luck in the new year.
- For the best chance of luck every day in the new year, eat 365 black-eyed peas on New Year's Day.
- When served with greens (collards, mustard or turnip), black-eyed peas represent coins and greens represent paper money.
- Cornbread, often served with black-eyed peas and greens, represents gold.
- Black-eyed peas eaten with stewed tomatoes represent wealth and health.
- In Hoppin' John, each pea represents a coin, and a whole serving equals prosperity.
