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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.

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