Playing With Food: The season for pumpkin spice

KCBX | By Fr. Ian Delinger

Published October 26, 2020 at 1:47 PM PDT

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There is no shortage of pumpkin patches on the Central Coast this pumpkin season.

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SLO Provisions uses a traditional spice mix for their pumpkin pie. Some commercial mixes add allspice.

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It looks like a lot of ingredients, but pumpkin pie is a fairly simple custard.

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Looking forward to as Thanksgiving dinner approaches.

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SLO Provisions baker Shannon with her finished product.

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Fr. Ian's perfect slice of pumpkin pie.

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The pasteurizer (R) and ice cream maker (L) at Negranti Creamery.

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The Harvest Pumpkin ice cream takes its color straight from the pumpkin puree.

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It tastes like frozen pumpkin pie.

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A selection of pumpkin spice flavored products to illustrate how widespread the flavor is in the autumn.

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Pumpkin spice seems to be everywhere, and many are looking forward to that Thanksgiving pumpkin pie. But there’s one kind of pumpkin spice that is ewe-nique to the Central Coast.

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