Eat soup joumou to celebrate Haitian Independence Day Jan. 1 In Haiti, New Year's Day also happens to be Haitian Independence Day, a day of great pride for the nation's people and the Haitian ...

Soup joumou is no exception. If you translate the second word from Haitian Creole into English, you learn that it means pumpkin, and this is the soup's main ingredient. The dish also goes by a few ...

Some Haitian chefs and home cooks prefer to keep the soup vegetarian whereas others, like my mom, use both beef and chicken. “A lot of us think that soup joumou is this very one specific thing ...

Soup Joumou is part of Haitian culture. Every January first, to celebrate the holiday and wish good luck for the New Year, pumpkin soup is prepared and shared in every family unit all around the ...

Soup joumou is a cherished tradition in Haiti, enjoyed not only on Independence Day but also at weddings as a meaningful ...

which was then used to make soup joumou. Haitians were forbidden to eat the soup, and now it signifies freedom. Springfield’s Haitian population was scrutinized by the nation when the city was ...

Margo Gabriel, author of “The Expat Kitchen Cookbook,” swith Tamika Francis, the founder of “Food and Folklore" series at ...

Food trucks including Ms. Didi’s Caribbean Kitchen and Chateau Creole, along with Charlotte’s only brick and mortar Haitian restaurant, Lakou, will be serving up soup joumou, a squash soup ...

On Saturday night, Haitian-Americans in the Chicago area came ... to eat our freedom soup or soup joumou together as a community, and fellowship." The island nation's liberation in 1804 ...

While many celebrated New Year's Day with champagne toasts, Portland's newest Haitian restaurant marked ... the historic day by serving Soup Joumou, a traditional squash soup that carries ...