PAPA LUC'S IS A LOVE LETTER TO HAITI.
PAPA LUC'S IS A LOVE LETTER TO HAITI.
(DEC, 2025)
“Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma.”
—Anthony Bourdain
01 Léogâne Roots
01 Léogâne Roots
Papa Luc's begins in Léogâne, Haiti, with Luc Dufleurant, our founder's grandfather, and a farmer who treated the land with care. He understood terroir instinctively: the precise conditions that coaxed fire from peppers, sweetness from tropical flora, complexity from the soil itself. His work was exacting and unhurried, guided by respect for origin and an uncompromising standard. Those principles—integrity, precision, and deep love for place- are the foundation of everything we create.
Papa Luc's begins in Léogâne, Haiti, with Luc Dufleurant, our founder's grandfather, and a farmer who treated the land with care. He understood terroir instinctively: the precise conditions that coaxed fire from peppers, sweetness from tropical flora, complexity from the soil itself. His work was exacting and unhurried, guided by respect for origin and an uncompromising standard. Those principles—integrity, precision, and deep love for place- are the foundation of everything we create.
02 From Childhood to Now
02 From Childhood to Now
Our founder's first teachers were her grandparents: Luc and Servilia, whose cooking brought the land to life on the plate. They taught their daughter Louisena, a nurse and exceptional cook, how to honor ingredients and preserve what mattered. Louisena, our founder's mother, carried those lessons across oceans and decades, making sure the flavors of home stayed alive.
When Luc passed at 98 in New York, she held him with the same tenderness he had shown her throughout his life. That devotion became something our founder, Gaïana, inherited: not just how to cook, but why it matters. Papa Luc's is that inheritance in motion, a commitment to sharing Haiti's flavors with the care and respect they've always deserved.
Our founder's first teachers were her grandparents: Luc and Servilia, whose cooking brought the land to life on the plate. They taught their daughter Louisena, a nurse and exceptional cook, how to honor ingredients and preserve what mattered. Louisena, our founder's mother, carried those lessons across oceans and decades, making sure the flavors of home stayed alive.
When Luc passed at 98 in New York, she held him with the same tenderness he had shown her throughout his life. That devotion became something our founder, Gaïana, inherited: not just how to cook, but why it matters. Papa Luc's is that inheritance in motion, a commitment to sharing Haiti's flavors with the care and respect they've always deserved.
03 Celebrating Haiti
03 Celebrating Haiti
Haiti is home to some of the world's most distinctive terroir—complex, layered, and largely misunderstood beyond its borders. Heirloom varieties, traditional methods, flavors that exist nowhere else. Through Papa Luc's, we bring this heritage to the table. Not as inspiration borrowed from afar, but as a living culture cultivated for generations. Every flavor reflects a place that deserves to be seen, tasted, and respected on its own terms.
Haiti is home to some of the world's most distinctive terroir—complex, layered, and largely misunderstood beyond its borders. Heirloom varieties, traditional methods, flavors that exist nowhere else. Through Papa Luc's, we bring this heritage to the table. Not as inspiration borrowed from afar, but as a living culture cultivated for generations. Every flavor reflects a place that deserves to be seen, tasted, and respected on its own terms.
04 Expanding Palates
04 Expanding Palates
Our goal isn't familiarity; it's discovery. Papa Luc's introduces flavors you won't find anywhere else, rooted in generations of tradition and Haiti's singular terroir. We're opening palates, starting conversations, making space for Haiti at tables and in pantries where it's long been absent. These are flavors meant to travel, meant to stay with you, meant to change you and your world.
Our goal isn't familiarity; it's discovery. Papa Luc's introduces flavors you won't find anywhere else, rooted in generations of tradition and Haiti's singular terroir. We're opening palates, starting conversations, making space for Haiti at tables and in pantries where it's long been absent. These are flavors meant to travel, meant to stay with you, meant to change you and your world.
05 Our Mission
05 Our Mission
Papa Luc's exists to preserve and share Haitian heritage through food. We work with farmers who know the land, honor traditions passed down through generations, and build a future founded on respect and care. We believe flavor is a bridge: it connects cultures, honors what came before, and invites what comes next. From our family to your table, this is our love letter to Haiti.
Papa Luc's exists to preserve and share Haitian heritage through food. We work with farmers who know the land, honor traditions passed down through generations, and build a future founded on respect and care. We believe flavor is a bridge: it connects cultures, honors what came before, and invites what comes next. From our family to your table, this is our love letter to Haiti.