Soup Joumou is not only a famous dish/ important in the Haitian culture but it represent a pivotal time in our Black History and for the Haitian people.  Soup Joumou is often made with Kabocha squash puree (joumou, hence the name) and with several other ingredients, which are include but not limited to squash, carrots, potatoes, yam, beef and many spices.  Our ancestors were not allow to drink it and thay soup joumou only reserved for the slave owners. Only the slave masters were fortunate to drink it and only after it was prepared by the slave according to historian.  Haitian became independent in 1804  led by Jean Jacques Dessalines and Toussaint L'Ouverture according to historian through a bloody war against the French armies ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte. As a form of celebration, almost every household make that good soup Joumou on January 1 of every year and sending a message to the French that very dishes you have deprive us from that now we drinking after kicking the A$$. 

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