Fasolia

Black-eyed beans are generally believed to have originated in West Africa, and thence to have travelled east to China, and west (carried by trafficked slaves) to the United States – where they are now very much embedded in the cuisine of the nation. They are so beloved in the US that they are eaten for luck on New Year’s Day in a dish known as Hopping John – which is rice and peas by any other name. This recipe, however, derives from the eastern end of the Mediterranean – Greece, the Levant