Come fall another great American food source that I enjoy
makes its annual appearance: pumpkin (and squash to a lesser extent). As old as
American Thanksgiving is the pumpkin pie and the scary jack-o-lantern carved
from pumpkins is an annual favorite. But now in the 21st century
everything comes up pumpkin. We have pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin crème centered
Oreos, pumpkin waffle mixes, pumpkin spiced creams for our coffee and on and
on. I won’t deny that I grow pumpkins every year just so I can carve some
Halloween jack-o-lanterns, have some pumpkin pie and stuff at least one with a
traditional autumn stuffing that I bake in the oven. I still have pureed pumpkin in the freezer so
that I can cook up a batch of pumpkin waffles at any time now. There are
definitely certain American foods that define us as a people and pumpkin is one
of those foods. Now as autumn comes in, harvest those pumpkins and join me in a
pumpkin spice latte toast to that amazing squash, the pumpkin.
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