So, there I was, home from the Cabot Farmer’s Market last Saturday with a whole heap of beautiful purple-hull peas, and only one known recipe for cooking them: Hoppin’ John. I got online, and in short ...

NEWTON COUNTY, Texas — Families spent the sunny Saturday in the Shankleville Community for the 8th Annual Texas Purple Hull Pea Festival. The jammed-packed schedule of events included pea picking ...

SHORTER, Ala. — Eating a bowl of black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day is not the nation’s sexiest food ritual. Peas are not as beloved as Thanksgiving turkey. Peas lack the easy appeal of Super Bowl ...

Crowder peas, cow peas, black-eyed peas, pink-eye peas, purple hull peas -- these Southern peas start making their appearance in the market this time of year. Because they love a long, hot growing ...

Fresh field peas, like the Black-Eyed and prehaps more interestingly, the Purple Hull Pink Eyed pea, debuted at the markets a couple of weeks ago. Black-Eyed and Pink-Eyed peas are a favorite holiday ...

During the years I lived in the mid-Atlantic, when I responded to the region’s summer heat with inexhaustible strings of choice words, it helped to remember that my most beloved summer crop, a little ...

During the years I lived in the mid-Atlantic, when I responded to the region's summer heat with inexhaustible strings of choice words, it helped to remember that my most beloved summer crop, a little ...

Field peas are the South's most varied legume, but many cooks never venture past black-eyed peas and might not realize there are other choices. We should, however. Although black-eyed peas are good, ...

A farmer might call them cowpeas. A grocer might call them black-eyed peas. A restaurant waitress might call them field peas. But they are all talking about the same vegetable — the southern pea. If ...

SHORTER, Ala. — Eating a bowl of black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day is not the nation’s sexiest food ritual. Peas are not as beloved as Thanksgiving turkey. Peas lack the easy appeal of Super Bowl ...