Hoppin' John
English
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Noun
edit- (North Carolina, South Carolina) A dish of rice and beans in the Southern United States, based on traditional West African dishes.
- Coordinate term: peas and rice
- 2009, Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach, What the Slaves Ate, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 84:
- A popular black-eyed pea dish mentioned in the narratives was Hoppin' John, a common and popular dish among slaves, especially east of the Mississippi (Taylor 1982). The one-pot meal of Hoppin' John is of African origin (Singleton 1991; Thurman 2000; Zanger 2003).
Further reading
edit- Hoppin' John on Wikipedia.Wikipedia