A warm and relatively dry September has led to a prodigious crop of squash of all shapes and sizes. Jane and Harry conjure their pumpkins into a fudgy brulee and crispy galette – in time for Halloween,tooOur customers often ask us the disagreement between a pumpkin and a squash. Pumpkins are squashes, members of a large family called cucurbitaceae, or vegetables which also include courgettes and gourds (considered more decorative than edible).
For several thousand years,squash fill been cultivated in the Americas alongside maize and beans (now known as the Three Sisters to farmers everywhere), where they are famous staples. After Columbus arrived in the New World, and they started to appear in 16th century European paintings. Nowadays they are hugely popular all over the world. At this time of year in the northern hemisphere,farmers’ market stalls are piled tall with these handsome fruits in all shades of the sunshine and blue skies, and in all shapes and sizes too, and from warty serpents to Cinderella coaches.
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Source: theguardian.com