Amazon Quiz: Joumou soup is a traditional pumpkin soup from which country that recently got the UNESCO…?
Amazon Quiz: Joumou soup is a traditional pumpkin soup from which country that recently got the UNESCO cultural heritage status?
Thailand
Haiti
Barbados
Tajikistan
Answer: Haiti
Joumou soup is a traditional pumpkin soup which holds great significance in Haiti since it is a mark of its liberation from being a French colony.
It became a part of UNESCO’s prized intangible cultural heritage list in December 2021.
Dominique Dupuy, the Haitian ambassador to UNESCO, spoke to NPR, saying “This soup means everything. And I’ll explain what that means. The soup is not so much about what it tastes like, although it tastes delicious. It’s a velvety, bright yellow, very tasty soup. It’s a vehicle of all the Haitian heritage. We call it the bowl of freedom. During the colony, the soup was prepared by slaves for hundreds of years. And they could never taste it because they were deemed too uncivilized. So on the day of independence, the first emperor of Haiti has his wife stand up and declare that this is now the national soup of the first free Black people in the history of humanity. And we’ve been having that soup every January 1 for 217 years, kind of like calling every person around the world that is denied freedom, denied dignity to join on this table and share the soup with us, just as we did on January 1, 1804”.
Audrey Azoulay, director-general of UNESCO noted that Joumou is more than just a dish for Haitians. She continued, “It tells the story of the heroes and heroines of Haitian independence, their struggle for human rights and their hard-won freedom.”
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