Guerdie Dorelien
Dorelien
Marc
English 094
September 23, 2015
Haitian Food Culture
As Haitian there’s a lot of thing I like with the Haitian culture.
But what I like the most is the New Year.
Where we have to celebrate
two big things New Year and our independence’s day. The reason why I
like these occasion better it because of pumpkin soup.
Everybody knows pumpkin we see a lot especially
for Halloween where
they used it to make different thing. I like eating my boil pumpkin and the
soup.
Sometimes I don’t wait for New
Year to make pumpkin, I have it almost every Sunday.
Every country has their own culture. It can be anything
like: Food, music, clothes dance and life
style. It happen some people
forget about their culture when they move to another country, but some people
are not.
Like for Haitian people, we can’t forget our pumpkin
soup; wherever the country we move to.
Even they don’t have this custom
we still have to do it this is a way to recognize Haitian people
from your job or anywhere wait for
the New Year you all Haitian with their pumpkin soup for lunch.
Haitian was the first
black liberated from slave in January 1804. As you know when you slave
you really private from almost
everything; therefore you are not allow to do or eat everything
you want. They all were depend on
the slaves’ owner. Having the good food when you slave I
think it almost impossible. Because
been in slavery you don’t treat like human being you get treated like animal.
What happen is when Haitian were in slavery the used to
make good pumpkin soup for their
owner, but they didn’t allow to
eat some.
In January 1st 1804 they fought for their independence;
as they become independent
every food they were private from
they decided to eat them. In particularly pumpkin
Soup, was the first and unit thing
they have for that day.
For this reason, since 1804 till now Haitian people
never celebrate New Year without a bowl of pumpkin soup.
