Surinamese Festival Foodways

Festival

⚠ SURINAME HAS PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR HINDU, MUSLIM, CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, INDIGENOUS AND MAROON OBSERVANCES, which may be unmatched anywhere. KETI KOTI on 1 JULY — the end of slavery in 1863 — with heri heri, koto dress and the Sranan Tongo of the day. HOLI PHAGWA in March. DIWALI. ID-UL-FITR. CHRISTMAS and New Year with pom, and the PAGARA firecracker chains of Chinese origin that the whole country sets off. Indigenous Peoples Day on 9 August; Maroon Day on 10 October. CHINESE NEW YEAR. ⚠ AND THE FOOD CROSSES: everyone eats pom, everyone eats roti, everyone eats bami, and the holidays are national rather than communal.