You may know that Queen Esther is the heroine of the joyful holiday of Purim, which begins Wednesday evening. She was the beautiful Jewish woman selected by the King of Persia to be his wife. After ...

Crack open your jack-o’-lantern and you’ll see pumpkin seeds, but they’re probably not pepitas. Pepitas are seeds without a hull and are only found in specific types of pumpkin. These green seeds have ...

Incorporating African pumpkin seeds into your diet is easy and requires little preparation. They are available year-round at ...

Try this bright salad as a side dish to your next summer cookout. Instructions: Using a vegetable peeler, peel the eggplant down the length of the fruit in stripes so that there are still stripes of ...

Pumpkins are everywhere now — pureed into soups, roasted and carved into scary faces. You’ve scooped out that white gooey strands and the slimy seeds inside and while you might think about throwing ...

The voluptuous cheese filling in AOC’s stuffed squash blossoms is just one reason this dish is so wonderful. A lemony aioli drizzled over the top blends with the nuttiness of pepitas (squash seeds).

MILACA — Though her greenhouse is full of them, a Milaca grower's pumpkins will not meet a toothy-smiled end on front porches this October. Instead, their rotund, mottled green shells will be split ...