Do Not Put That in Your Mouth

By John Currence | January 15, 2009 | Food

I spent New Year’s Day at our duck camp in the Mississippi Delta, where one of our members took the lead on cooking the traditional greens and peas for the New Year’s Day meal. As he was finishing up the cabbage, I asked whether he’d remembered to put a penny in the pot. A perfectly obvious question, I thought. An elder Currence had passed the suggestion/admonition along to my mother when I was very young, and as I understood it, the penny was supposed to give those who at the greens a kind of monetary superpower in the coming year.

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