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Hoppin' John - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hoppin' John is the Southern United States' version of the rice and beans dish traditional throughout the Caribbean. It consists of black-eyed peas (or field peas) and rice, with chopped onion and sl...
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As for lore, well, there are as many stories regarding the origin of the name Hoppin' John as there are tributaries flowing into the Mississippi. One of the more popular theories suggests it's a Southernization of pois à pigeon (pwah ah pee-ZHAN), which is French for pigeon pea.
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Hoppin' John is found in most states of the South, but it is mainly associated with the Carolinas. Gullah or Low Country cuisine reflects the cooking of the Carolinas, especially the Sea islands (a cluster of islands stretching along the coats of south Carolina and northern Georgia).
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See also: Hopping John Recipe ... This dish is thought to have originated with African slaves on southern plantations, and is essentially black-eyed peas (cowpeas) cooked with salt pork and seasonings, and served with rice. There are several theories on the origin of the name, 'hoppin-john';
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Although the origin of the name "Hopping John" is a bit obscure, many food historians debate that the name originated from Confederate soldiers describing the action of the peas hopping in a pot of boiling water during the cooking process.
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South Beach Diet Cooking and Recipe Blog ... If you're not familiar with Hopping John, it's a southern dish traditionally eaten throughout the southern U.S. on New Year's Day. The origin of the name Hopping John is uncertain, but it is thought to have come from the Creole French pronunciation of the pigeon peas used in the dish.
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Why do they call it Hopping John? ... The OED offers some support for what I think is an equally likely origin of the word, recording a statement by an otherwise anonymous Hardy (not the novelist, who lived somewhat later) in 1843 that "These feasts, or as they are called elsewhere in Northumberland, hoppings, are held on...
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There have been various tales and legends debated over the years about the origin of the Wing Chun but the most widely told and accepted states that a woman named Yim Wing Chun invented it as a response to a man who tried to force her into marriage.
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The origin of some of these stories seems to be a government keen to “smoke out the Tories” on tax, and warm the cockles of their socialist heartlands with threats of penal taxes on the wealthy and successful.
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