Vegetables in pumpkin-seed sauce, a simple dish from Mexico's Oaxaca region, is a staple at Zocalo Cocina Mexicana. (Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff) Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff

In autumn, orange goes with everything

By Linda Laban

Globe Correspondent / November 20, 2006

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Few things herald fall's arrival quite as colorfully as the fun, funky looking, and brilliant orange pumpkin. And few vegetables are as versatile as this variety of winter squash. Pumpkin has an amiable chameleonic quality: Wherever it's used in cooking -- soups, sauces, stews, pasta fillings, pickles, pies, muffins, and more -- the mellow but characterful pumpkin makes friends with ... (Full article: 651 words)