What are your family traditions for the New Year?
In the Pittsburgh area where I grew up, eating pork and cabbage for the New Year was an important family tradition. Sometimes we would be invited to another family's home on New Year's Day to share "Pigs In A Blanket," spiced ground pork rolled in cabbage leaves, then baked in tomato sauce. More often I remember caging an invitation to lunch with friends, when they would have warmed-over sauerkraut and pork from the night before.
Those might be Polish or Slovakian customs. I don't remember any special New Year's meals with my Italian grandparents, unless it was the nasty white rice with sugar and butter Gramma tried to feed me for breakfast! For a kid raised on cold cereal, any rice appearing before noon needed a Snap! Crackle! and Pop!
So what foods do you traditionally share with your family, to celebrate the New Year?
Saturday, January 2, 2010
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