2019 JANUARY 1 NEW YEAR'S DAY
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The 1880 legend, according to Sue Colson, is that if one eats black-eyed pea soup at the new year’s start, one will become healthy and wealthy. Greens, the kale and onion tops, represent paper money; the peas represent coins.
So, to insure their health and prosperity, Colson and husband Russ cooked vegetarian and non-vegetarian black-eyed pea soups for the gardeners at the Cedar Key Community Garden for the Tuesday, January 1, 2:30 pm gathering. The Colsons rounded out the meal with cornbread, rice, and two blueberry pies, complete with ice cream, even in the 75-degree weather. Gardeners, some thirty of them, brought more cornbread, spicy and not, cookies of all sorts, and more.
So, to insure their health and prosperity, Colson and husband Russ cooked vegetarian and non-vegetarian black-eyed pea soups for the gardeners at the Cedar Key Community Garden for the Tuesday, January 1, 2:30 pm gathering. The Colsons rounded out the meal with cornbread, rice, and two blueberry pies, complete with ice cream, even in the 75-degree weather. Gardeners, some thirty of them, brought more cornbread, spicy and not, cookies of all sorts, and more.