squash

“I remember going to one party with a lot of CEOs and big, big, big business guys and, the hostess was serving a butternut squash soup,” Stewart recounted.

Pumpkins, squash, zucchini, and other members of the gourd family have a surprising trait: they can take up pollutants from the soil and store them in their edible parts.

Torres made her first pumpkin display at home in 2013, inspired by the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden’s Pumpkin Village, which features over 100,000 pumpkins, gourds and squash spread over 66 acres.

Thomas River Watterson grows tomatoes, corn and squash at a vegetable garden that is part of the Bishop Paiute Tribe’s food program.

Tender flaked blue crab and summer squash add sweetness and depth.