Happy Haitian Heritage Month 🇭🇹 • • Soup Joumou: The Soup That Symbolizes Haitian Freedom- A Haitian New Year Tradition 🇭🇹🇭🇹 ———— “Haiti became free on January 1, 1804, and on that day it acquired a new name too. Previously called Saint-Domingue, the territory had been France's most profitable colony, its plantation economy dependent on a brutal system of slave labor. Following an insurrection that grew to a full-fledged revolution, Haitian slaves and gens de couleur libres—free people of color—defeated the French military and declared for themselves a republic. The new name was also an old one: Haiti (in Haitian Creole, Ayiti) came from the indigenous Taino word for the region. It means "land of the mountains." . . . “After freedom, it was time to celebrate. And to eat—at least, according to the legend surrounding the pumpkin beef soup.” There’s no written account but allegedly Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s wife Marie-Claire Heureuse initiated the tradition. It was a delicacy—something reserved for French slave masters. When Haitians threw out the French, they vested this previously forbidden food with new meaning. The soup became a symbol of Haitian independence and freedom.” . . . What do you typically put in your Soup Joumou? 🥣 🥄 👩🏾🍳 👨🏾🍳 Let us know in the comments section! ⬇️ #haitianheritagemonth . . Source: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus/haitian-independence-soup-joumou-recipe-article (at Port-au-Prince, Haiti) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdBV27SLuiI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=