Beauregard wrote:
Black eyed peas with a ham hock or hog jowls
Collards (pepper vinegar optional but recommended)
Cornbread with a lucky penny included in the batter.

Yum-yum!
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This is best made as "Hopping John" which includes the peas, peppers,
onion and the ham hocks although my Yankee wife insists on just using
diced ham but the flavor suffers, She cannot cook collards so I depend
on the kindness of one of my employees wifes to cook them for me. I
make the corn bread (gotta be white corn meal). The saying is that for
every black eyed pea you eat on New Years day you'll make that much
money in the coming year.
As far as North Florida Culinary Culture, I am really slipping this
year as I have not yet had any smoked mullet although we did have
cheese grits on Christmas.