Detailed Contents: Squash and Pumpkin-Squash Recipes-Herb-Fried Summer Squash-Fried Summer Squash and Onions-Scalloped Hubbard Squash-Baked Winter Squash-Squash Green Bean Sauté  -Baked Zucchini    

Squash and Pumpkin

Pumpkins are a form of squash and belong to the family cucurbitaecde, which includes cucumbers, melons, squash and gourds. Within this family is the genius cucumbata, which includes all varieties of pumpkin.

Cultivated Pumpkins are generally believed to have originated in central North America. While the origins of the wild form is uncertain, they, like all of the other vegetables of supposedly  North American origin, probably originated in South America, although there is considerable documented and possibly well founded, claim as to an Asian origin.