I got an email a few years ago in early December as well as a question from a friend at the pool about saving gourd seeds. “Is it OK to eat squash that has mixed traits of different squash in the same ...

More than 200 years ago, France's King Louis XVI was killed (along with his wife, Marie Antoinette) via guillotine, and legend has it someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king's blood, then ...

Pumpkin and butternut squash might both belong to the squash family, but some experts think one is healthier than the other.

1 of 9 — Wing Gourds: Phil Rupp of Rupp Seeds says that, many years ago, an Amish woman from Pennsylvania sent Phil's father, Roger Rupp, photos of an interesting gourd she'd developed. Roger hadn't ...

You’ve waited all year to hit the pumpkin patch. Go ahead and get your gourd on by scooping and blending squash into your fall party drinks. When G-rated horchata doesn’t quite cut it, send in the ...

Spotting the fruit of the fall season in my local supermarket conjures visions of cozy winter dinners complemented by inspired autumnal table settings (which I will never set). But on rare occasions ...

When we talk about winter squash we are distinguishing it from summer squash: zucchini and yellow summer squash. Think butternut, buttercup, Kabocha, delicata, acorn and others. Winter squash — which ...

My small apartment has been turned into a squash court. Every kitchen surface and then some is stacked with sheet trays of oven-roasted squash, filling the space inside these four walls with a toasty, ...

Here’s a headline-writing tip for October: “Gourd” fits on the page more easily than “pumpkin,” and lends itself to more puns (“Wicked gourd-geous”). If you work at a newspaper, you’ll get sick of the ...

Small, round, and shaped like — wait for it — an acorn, the acorn squash is easily found in supermarkets. These little guys have sweet, slightly fibrous flesh and hard, blackish-green outer skins. For ...

Galeux D' Eysines: The commonly used name is likely a shortened version of Borde Galeux d'Eysines, which means "embroidered with scabs from Eysines," a small city in southern France. It's a great ...