(KAi-may-dahm yo)
The House of the Women · Haitian Catering & Food Justice
A Haitian kitchen that caters events, and uses the whole chain as the instrument.
Kay Medam Yo is not a catering company with a giving program attached, it is the Reconstruction Framework applied to food.
THE WHOLE CHAIN AS THE INSTRUMENTEvery link in the food system is a decision. We make different ones.
From who grows the food to who cooks it to who is paid for cooking it, a meal is the end of a long chain of choices. Kay Medam Yo works that chain with the four components of the Reconstruction Framework.
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Trace where ingredients come from and who carries the risk and the cost at each step: farm, supplier, kitchen, table.
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Say plainly what the conventional chain does: named suppliers, documented wages, documented harm, different decisions available.
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Stop buying and paying the way the harmful chain expects. Change sourcing, pay, and practice inside the kitchen first.
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Build the food system that should have existed, centered on the people it has failed, across Mind, Body, Spirit, Economy, Environment, and Community.
DID YOU KNOW?The soup that was forbidden, then became the first meal of a free republic.
1804
Joumou is a squash soup. Its history is the argument Kay Medam Yo makes about food.
Joumou shows that a food can carry a whole system inside it: who grew it, who cooked it, who was allowed to eat it. Kay Medam Yo works the same way. We treat every link in the chain, from sourcing to the people in the kitchen to who sits at the table, as a decision we can change.
WHAT WE CATEReVENTS, put together WITH FOOD JUSTICE IN MIND.
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Convenings, trainings, and gatherings that want their food to match their values.
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Haitian cooking for weddings, milestones, and family gatherings.
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Joumou and the full Haitian table for January 1 and cultural programming.
Tell us about your event.
Share the date, the size, and the event. We will respond with next steps.
We respond to every inquiry within 48 hours.