Sumber Dari : CNN Travel, Amanda Kludt. 31 Desember 2024

New Year’s Day is meant for fresh starts. But maybe even more, it’s meant for food.The particulars vary, but the general theme is the same: Enjoy food and drink to usher in a year of prosperity. Heres what they got :

1. American South Hoppin’ John is a dish of pork-flavored field peas or black-eyed peas (symbolizing coins) and rice, frequently served with collards or other cooked greens (as they’re the color of money) and cornbread (the color of gold). The dish is said to bring good luck in the new year.

2. Spain The people of Spain traditionally watch a broadcast from Puerta del Sol in Madrid, where revelers gather in front of the square’s clock tower to ring in the New Year. Those out in the square and those watching at home partake in an unusual annual tradition: At the stroke of midnight, they eat one grape for every toll of the clock bell. Some even prep their grapes peeling and seeding them to make sure they will be as efficient as possible when midnight comes. And surprisingly, this tradition suddenly blew up on social media, especially on the TikTok platform.

3. Mexico : Tamales, corn dough stuffed with meat, cheese and other delicious additions and wrapped in a banana leaf or a corn husk, make appearances at pretty much every special occasion in Mexico. But the holiday season is an especially favored time for the food. On New Year’s, tamales are often served with menudo, a tripe and hominy soup that is famously good for hangovers.

4. Italy : Italians celebrate New Year’s Eve alongside La Festa di San Silvestro. A traditional celebratory feast will include cotechino con lenticchie, a sausage and lentil dish that is said to bring good luck (the lentils represent money and good fortune). In certain households, zampone (another type of pork sausage) is served instead of cotechino.

5. Japan : In Japanese households, families eat buckwheat soba noodles, or toshikoshi soba, at midnight on New Year’s Eve to bid farewell to the year gone by and welcome the year to come. The tradition dates to the 17th century, and the long noodles symbolize longevity and prosperity.