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Haitian Diaspora Foodways

Diaspora

Very large communities in the UNITED STATES — MIAMI’s Little Haiti above all, plus Brooklyn, Boston and New Jersey — in CANADA, overwhelmingly MONTREAL, where Haitian Creole is a major community language and Haitian restaurants are ordinary; in FRANCE; in the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, where Haitian and Haitian-descended workers are a large and precarious population; and in the Bahamas, Chile and Brazil more recently. Griot, diri djondjon, pikliz and soup joumou on 1 January travel intact; patties and the fritay stand appear wherever the community does.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Haitians abroad community documented

Languages: Haitian Creole, French

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • migrated to American documented

    Little Haiti in Miami, Brooklyn, Boston.

  • migrated to Canadian Foodways documented

    Montréal holds one of the largest Haitian communities outside Haiti, and Haitian Creole is a major community language there.

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