With less than a week until New Years Eve people are planning how to step into 2025.

With their best foot forward Latino cultures.

That could mean practicing age old traditions like eating 12 grapes wearing white in clean your house, all for good luck.

Of course.

Now we contacted some locals to see how there ringing in the New Year.

Joining us here are my teeth of Alaska's founder of the marinated Kitchen.

So Matic assess owner of Mi Codus on cafe in Pilsen and Maria Duro from the Brazilian Culture Center of Chicago.

Thank you, ladies for being here now.

There are a lot of superstitions, which is so funny because I think like every culture has some Medea.

I want to start with, you know, what are some superstitions you heard growing up in Brazil and how how do you believe in the stories?

as some of the start of I'm to donations through the community.

>> You know either your family and have superstitions.

What are some that you would say that yellow?

So some of the superstitions they were brought with some up on app to for example, one that everybody dies it, actually is a reference to a pumpkin seed cultural and heritage is sweating, white, very white because about the middle, which lead community to come when comes to white.

Everybody ways is for peace.

And now some means I rule.

So this one up them.

Second one, we have the grapes.

eat.

lot of people eat the grapes right with you on phone.

Interesting was eating lentils.

We do need to land those that come from the and community the grapes.

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That comes from the Greek Brazil.

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>> And you can with you for whole So stop without getting lost.

I think I would lose just we make sure that there a that America How about you?

What are some superstitions that you say that you do bring to ring in the new year?

So in my household, my mom, it was obvious like we have to clean up cleanup.

>> It's like Miami where we're going to compete for coming over.

Is Year's Eve know the House needs to be clean.

So it's like start to have a clean slate.

Everything needs to be crane.

So this way you starting the New Year's can sway, you know that was pretty much one of one yes, tell you, for my family would be eating the 12 grapes, but extra measure would be under the table.

Okay.

I have that under the table you're supposed eat the 12 grapes at midnight.

>> Under the table and it's supposed to bring you like you me.

with all these things mean a mother, Rita, as we know so much of the holiday season is celebrating with food and drinks and you brought a little something which is cool.

Keep though, very true, very poor to traditional drink.

Tell me what's inside.

So the people in my household, my husband makes a cookie But this year I took to cancel.

The goalkeeper has coconut cream coconut milk.

paraded milk and condensed milk and some spices.

So is best to lead us it for today's and this meant as a little cocktail drink, not a big cup because once you have killed people, I tell my home though, right?

As we can't forget, has Ron.

So if such additional drink that we have this kind of like lot.

But the and we this does not have aches.

So everyone makes it different.

Is the tradition of what your family, the recipe to share it.

I think in Mexican culture because I believe in Mexico as well.

Right.

it's it's the pointer for us which is like hop punch.

you know, for you, you know what traditions or you look forward forward to practicing.

I think you had mentioned that, you know, you would celebrate New Year's Eve for grandma's birthday.

My grandmother.

Yeah.

Her birthday was 30th 31030th.

But yet she passed away.

So every.

Every year for her breakthrough get together a family cut a cake scene for her then just celebrate her.

is going to look like this year this year we might visit her at the cemetery.

You know, we still get togethers the family.

She's very missed.

But, >> you know, it's that's brings us together you the way.

And we got to remember her.

Do you feel like you also honor that and in your cafe and by Cathy Yan make half an eye open then on a grandmother everything was honor of her.

If I was him close to my grandmother's, I grew up.

I wouldn't be as in touch with my culture.

You see pictures of her in the cafe drinks.

The food is all inspired by here that decorations as well.

It's all thanks to make onto your cafe and love how colorful.

like in many of a deal of renewal and starting over is big.

An Afro.

>> Brazilian kalter.

How do you teach the younger generation about these new beginnings?

>> One think that we actually like if you why, because we as a thankfully you go to the ocean speculation Lake we have jumping opened the week so we have the 7 times as a way weed And I was so you ask us.

The news spare ETA healthy from the new year.

I didn't know anybody else to get the call the holding hands families friends and they knew jump over the waves 7 times.

So everybody is on coastal they'll be like need as a people.

We also have the celebration the flowers that I want you to the and they will shun playing him a job.

But the job we've really beautiful yet.

So there several ways that we celebrate because dizziness have to be needed country come unique.

so we did all so many different types the dancing is so interesting you.

Have you seen people do it here in Chicago?

His Chicago, today's a space where we go from the flowers because at the end of the year before midnight to have to one's me and my job was to kind of to see that's this is my they see we put in in the and then anybody.

Everyone is a group of being get loans to been leak and they put go to the that sounds really and moderating.

You found your business, the marinated kitchen in 2020.

Why was it important for you to create a space that preserves Puerto Rican recipes?

So for Mister, the marinated kitchen?

Because I want to create a legacy for my family.

>> And just to keep the tradition, you know, of cooking with throwing garlic pieces.

One, my brands.

I was going to bring some Biden have any.

So if I could keep those sold out in the >> And I just wanted to keep that tradition of, you know, how do we cook you start with?

Because they do, which is my mom's, you know, pot and just to show them how to cook and what you need to add into device to give a flavor because in the Puerto Rican culture, you need goods.

Food that taste.

You know, the league has season with a lot of.

So the Garlic with us a song that is very important.

It's important distance a feat, though.

It's like, Oh, I can cook Maisel.

People will so funny.

People.

>> just to keep those traditions everyone in the family could just.

The United and keep my mom's legacy a life now.

So chill.

I wanted to.

Keep the family together because as tradition continues, I noticed, you know, we start separating because no one wants continue with the cookie and a lot of work.

Who's gonna holes and just keeping the families together.

So that was one of the theme basically to create a legacy for my family keep the recipes like I live.

Well, thank you all for sharing your traditions and so beautiful.