For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cabbage has long been a staple of the Irish diet, but it was traditionally served with Irish bacon, not corned beef. The corned beef was substituted for bacon by Irish immigrants to the Americas around the turn of the century who could not afford the real thing.