Squash

The global food supply chain wizards have contrived it such that butternut squash is available year-round in the UK. Other varieties, presumably all grown domestically, have only a short season in autumn, now seemingly over for the year. I bought the squash in the picture last weekend. This morning there were none in my local supermarkets.

This was a vegetable unknown to me in childhood. Its very name induced some cognitive dissonance as at that time I knew squash as a fruit-flavoured drink. I don’t think I as much as tasted any of the gourds until my late teens or early twenties. Now I look forward to squash season. I usually just roast the stuff; or sometimes I’ll have it in soups.