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November 22, 2023

How Pumpkins Became a Jewish Food

Brought by Jews from Spain to Italy.

Many Thanksgiving meals conclude with pumpkin pie—fittingly, since the pumpkin is a New World crop. But it was also a crop that didn’t take long to find its way onto Old World tables, in part because of Jews, who made it a staple of their own cuisine. Paola Gavin explains:

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