Behind the Line
Topic: Off the Clock
Holidays: How Food Figures in For You
Many cultures and regions celebrate New Year’s with “good fortune” foods like black-eye peas, long noodles, cabbage and pomegranate. Do you start the year with anything auspicious, and if so, what does it mean to you?
- Nathan Sears
- Executive Chef/Owner
- The Radler and D.A.S.
- Chicago, IL
The only thing I like to start the new year with is a good night sleep and a hearty breakfast. We are actually closed for the week following so its great to wind down after the December push.
- Jonathon Sawyer
- Executive Chef/Owner
- The Greenhouse Tavern and Noodlecat
- Cleveland, OH
Our NYE amuse is always Frech Money, w/ properly cooked lentils, root
vegetables, fine herbs & puff pastry. It's a traditional sign of wealth &
good fortune for the new year.
- Paul Fehribach
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Big Jones
- Chicago, IL
I long ago left the traditional celebrations of New Year's in the dust bin since I'm always working, but when I used to occasionally have NYE off I was partial to throwing lavish dinner parties wit...
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- Carrie Nahabedian
- Executive Chef/Owner
- NAHA and Brindille
- Chicago, IL
I always start and end the year with Champagne since it is the most festive
drink you can have. But, in the past, we have generally gone to Bacchanalia
for New Year's Day supper with lots of friend...
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- Steve McDonagh
- Owner
- Hearty
- Chicago, IL
I remember one of the first New Years we catered; a Polish guest brought a jar of Herring with the expressed purpose of eating it for luck. At midnight he came into the kitchen to get it and we cou...
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- Chrissy Camba
- Chef
- Bar Pastoral
- Chicago, IL
New Year's is a big deal at my household. It might be a Filipino thing (I
don't know), but it has always been huge at my house bc of my Lola's
(grandma) birthday. The dinner table has to be filled ...
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- Jill Barron
- Executive Chef/Owner
- MANA food bar
- Chicago, IL
I usually start the new year with a bean or lentil. my family is
french-canadian and we love to start the new year with yellow split pea
soup.