Being in the middle of the holiday season, it is difficult to make time for romantic affairs with your honey. As New Years Eve is approaching, I have found some fun and romantic food rituals to share that will bring you good luck!
Why not make tonight’s dinner menu include one of these whimsical gestures, to connect and share a romantic holiday experience with your lover!1. Eating fish on the New Year is lucky in three ways: their scales resemble coins, they travel in schools, which represents prosperity, and they swim forward, symbolizing progress.
2. In Spain and Portugal, they eat twelve grapes at midnight. As the clock chimes twelve times, you eat the twelve grapes to symbolize twelve months of good luck!
3. Lots of people consider pork to be the luckiest of all foods to eat on New Year’s Day because of their plump and ample appearance, symbolizing propsperity. Pigs also “root forward” with their noses, which is supposed to symbolize progress
4. Munching on ring-shaped food for breakfast represent not only comforting deliciousness, but also the year coming full circle.
5. Cooking some lentils have been eaten for luck as the Roman times! These coin-shaped legumes are lucky in Brazil and Italy because of their money like appearance.
6. In Japan, long buckwheat noodles represent long life, but only if you eat them without chewing or breaking!
7. Noshing on greens are lucky because they resemble paper money. Everything from cabbage to kale to your Mesclun salad mix will bring you good luck!
Here at Room Temp by Moshe, our assistant, Mary, will be bringing her southern roots to the north this New Year’s. Her family eats black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day to bring happiness, prosperity and love for the year to come. And baking a coin in a cake (corek) has been a tradition in my family for years! I appreciate learning about rituals from various cultures, bringing old and new friends together, as they exist for a common purpose, to celebrate love, life and good fortune with all who is near and dear to you!
Choose your favorite ritual from our list to create playful and enchanting New Years Eve dinner to steal someone’s heart!
And don’t forget a long sweet kiss…
About Moshe Aelyon
Born and raised in the variegated republic of Turkey, Moshe Aelyon reflects these eclectic roots in all of his fantastical creations by drawing from the past and looking to the future.
Once he had sharpened his skills in the fashion industry, Moshe found that he had a penchant and flair for entertaining. With the launch of Room Temp by Moshe, he brings to life the very best in food, events and interiors, focusing on the process that makes this happen, both with the individual client and the community where creation takes place. As an artist, he paints with texture, taste, color, aroma and sound. His finished work is a unique experience that is impossible to forget.
Moshe believes in taking time to appreciate all that is natural, authentic and thoughtful, a philosophy that brings people together in appreciation of joy and design, which nurtures our collective souls in the process.
