Tomatoes turn red all summer long, and then at the end of the season, they stop.

Enter veg box newsletter, stage left, unfurling a banner that reads “I Have Founde Soupe Reciepts From the Internette for Thee to Trie”.

Pies are always the main event, never a side dish- they represent some effort of the home cook, a domestic triumph, maybe a loving gesture

it is so serendipitous that you are almost required to bake something rhubarby. Not really, of course- you must never let a veg box newsletter boss you around- but if you want to bake something rhubarby, then this is the time to do it. 

I think part of it must just be the aesthetics of the squash: large, round, knobbly, kind of jovial-looking. Sometimes bright orange, sometimes blue-grey, sometimes green, each variety is so different and so pleasing in its difference