"fall food" news and stories

Well, with all of the pumpkin-related Halloween stuff we did yesterday, this seems like it's a day too late, but there's still plenty of pumpkin food to talk about.

It's Pumpkin Day, so maybe this is the day you can go to your supermarket or your favorite pumpkin-selling farmstand to get some pumpkins for your home and/or yard. But what about recipes? PumpkinNook.com has a ton of recipes, including many pumpkin pie, cookie, and cake recipes. Here's a recipe for Pumpkin Custard from Bon Appetit, while PastryWiz has one for Pumpkin Nut Bread.

We need more amateur scientists in the world using their powers for good, like the duo who decided to brew beer in a pumpkin, as illustrated in these pictures over at Flickr.

When I first heard about this, I thought it was a beer that tasted like pumpkin (like the various blueberry beers and other flavors that have been popping up the last few years). But no, it's a big pumpkin carved out (using a drill) and rigged to actually brew the beer.

[via Boing Boing]