Article: Recipe for a happy new year calls for a pinch of luck?

Every new year can bring a fresh start. Whether you start a new path, or just change the way you think about and view your path, it's a new year. Our country even has a new leader. Hope is all around us. In many cultures, the hope is for good luck, a long life, happiness and prosperity, pursuits we can all relate to. For many people, specific foods are eaten to assure the new year will bring good fortune.

In Japan, long soba noodles are eaten to welcome the new year, representing a long life. Lentils, for their coin shape are a symbol of wealth and are eaten on the first day of the year in Italy. I remember as a child, my Mom always made Lentil Soup With Escarole on New Year's Day.

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