Soups are typically — although not always — named for a chief ingredient (Italian wedding soup contains neither brides nor grooms). Soup joumou is no exception. If you translate the second ...

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 slightly sweet ... with food insecurity and non-Haitians who have never interacted with Haitian food before. “I know the Haitians are going to come anyway and get it, ...

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 ...