/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9180171
Neither. I harvest them, and all my other pastas, from the wild. Having a pasta orchard in the neighbourhood is quite a boon and provides more pastas than we know what to do with. Pic related: it's one of the trees in a pasta grove at the local orchard.

>>9180479
>>9180488
I live in the US, too. Have been for quite some time now.
Different squashes for different times of year, yeah. I know sugar babies, the pumpkin most people here think of when they think 'pumpkin' ripen later than do Spanish ones. They also taste completely different and are super sweet while Spanish pumpkin tastes more vegetal. The two don't look too much alike, either. Sugar babies are globular with shallow ridges and a thicker, bright orange skin while Spanish ones are flatter with deep ridges and a thinner, dusty brown skin.

>pumpkin (and by proxy, pumpkin spice) in the early winter
I've been living in the US for a decade and a half now and I will never understand this horrific tradition. The omnipresence of the stuff from October through January is astounding. It's like "Happy Halloween! Time for this shit to get into everything I eat and drink for the next three months!"