Happy 2025 everyone! This year I hope we talk about true American History and what better place to start than food. There’s a story going around about the importance of black eyed peas and the civil war. Basically confederate soldiers had to eat black eyed peas (animal food) because the Yankees burned everything else. The only reason black eyed peas were looked at as animal feed was because enslaved people grew them….1/3 https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-cowpea-a-recipe-for-resilience/