(Others said that hoppin' John brings the luck, but golden yellow corn bread and greens have to be eaten, too, to bring the money).
But blink and there were ghosts — the immigrants crying hockfleish and irregular pants, pumping their sewing machines like swarming hornets in the tenement lofts, braiding Yiddish curses into their yellow challah bread.
The destination is a simpler, cleaner, more honest America, a place where the corn is bright yellow, the bread exhales clouds of yeasty sweetness and the fish swim in water as pure as Évian.
Beverly invited us to the table and served us a delicious succotash made from hominy and a couple kinds of beans; bowls of neon-yellow cold squash; somiviki (fine blue-corn flour mixed with water and sugar then wrapped in cornhusk); fry bread, yellow watermelon; and Hopi tea (brewed from greenthread or thelesperma filifolium).
Other dishes are macaroni and cheese; corn bread; yellow rice; and even sausage with sauerkraut.
The assortment of breads -- a high point in almost every good restaurant in town, and a daily delight everywhere -- is astonishing; the sheermal, another yellow saffron-semolina bread, was one I could not stop eating.
5. Spread yellow mustard on bread.
A healthier option would include whole grain wheat bread, yellow mustard, unsweetened or diet tea, carrot sticks, and a sugar-free popsicle (or no popsicle at all).
At the house restaurant, a three-course dinner for two with local specialties like grilled lamb meatballs, breaded yellow cheese and dessert pancakes costs $11. Doubles: $110.
But we are tired of the food: yellow rice, beans, flat bread and daily "mystery meat".
