Few things unite Haitians more than savoring a bowl of soup joumou like this one made by Chef Dominique at KC Healthy Cooking in North Miami, Florida. - Jose A. Iglesias/el Nuevo Herald/TNS
Haiti has experienced a series of crises this year, from the middle-of-the-night assassination of its presidentto a devastating earthquake to kidnappingsby warring gangs and now a deadly fuel tanker blastin its second-largest city. But just as the country’s beloved soup joumou — pumpkin soup — warms the soul on New Year’s Day in celebration of Haiti becoming the world’s first free Black republic after enslaved Africans defeated their French colonizers, there’s a story that helps to balance out the horrible news in a nation still reeling from all its tragedies. On Thursday, the pumpkin-heavy so...
