It’s an ancient and adaptive food, and just about every culture does delicious savoury and sweet things with squash, such as Fak Thong Sangkaya
Askutasquash, askutasquash, askutasquash. I’ve been rolling this word around my tongue and repeating it under my breath like a spell, a prayer for rain, an expression of gratitude to the Earth for producing it. The word askutasquash is from Narragansett, a Native American language from which the word squash derives. It translates to “a green thing eaten raw or uncooked”. What a beautiful word it is too.
This genus of cucurbita includes many domesticated, cultivated species including C. moschata (crookneck pumpkin), C. pepo (field pumpkin) and C. ficiofolia (fig leaf gourd).
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