We Carve Pumpkins, So Why the Hell Don’t We Cook Them?

Recipes for Halloween and beyond

Mark Bittman
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Published in
6 min readOct 29, 2020

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Pasta with squash.
Photo: Aya Brackett

Almost nobody cooks with fresh pumpkin. We’ll spend hours carving them into ornate jack-o-lanterns, but when it comes time to make pumpkin pie or pumpkin soup or pumpkin whatever, we reach for the can. Halloween is Saturday. Pumpkins abound. If there was ever a time to think about cooking one, it’s now.

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Mark Bittman
Heated

Has published 30 books, including How to Cook Everything and VB6: The Case for Part-Time Veganism. Newsletter at markbittman.com.