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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From making resolutions and eating black eyed peas, to hanging onions outside and eating grapes, people all across the world are preparing their personal rituals to ring in the New Year at ...