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“I just keep trying to grow a bigger one, and this year is my biggest yet. This was a bad year for em… with all the wet weather. It might put me higher up in the rankings this year in the weigh-off,” he said.

Pinch Chinese for the culinary win. They take comfort food to the next level. When people talk about their big Sunday dinners, mine was a little different. Growing up every Sunday we would have a sea of Chinese food with all kinds of takeout dishes.

@Met_CindyFitz . Just in case you guys wanted to share this story, thought it was really cool. Last night at the Deerfield fair there was a new U.S record pumpkin weighed at 2528 pounds beating the previous one of 2363 pounds. It was grown by a grower of Steve geddes From N.H. pic.twitter.com/B2aSKqYsKp

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Crumble in half the stock cube and stir in the chestnuts. Season with salt and pepper. Bring the pan to the boil. If you’ve used a saucepan, transfer to an ovenproof casserole at this point. Cover whichever pan or dish you’re using and cook in the oven for 30 minutes.

“It’s just neat to have a big pumpkin in your yard. People come and stop and look at it. The kids love it,” he said, pointing to an area out front of his home where he’s left a space for people to stop and look up into the yard and watch the pumpkin grow.

Unfortunately, the early version of glossypol-free cotton did not catch on. Though that shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Cotton produces glossypol for a reason. It doesn’t just induce sterility in bulls and men. It produces sterility in insects that nibble on cotton. This isn’t quite the pest control strategy of producing a neurotoxin like caffeine in coffee or cacao (which also produces theobromine, the reason you don’t feed chocolate to dogs) or nicotine in tobacco, which kills those nibbling insects. But creating sterility in your predatory rivals is a pretty decent strategy to keeping infestations manageable. Cotton farmers find this useful, as you can imagine.

When it comes to watermelons, chances are you’re wasting perfectly good food every time you take a juicy bite. First, the white part of the rind is totally edible. You can chop it up to throw in a stir-fry or pickle the rind for a delicious snack. But the real health surprise comes within the peskiest part of a watermelon—the seeds. Watermelon seeds have almost every nutrient you can name—protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals, says Elizabeth Somer, R.D.N., the author of Eat Your Way to Happiness. "Why toss away something that’s so good for you when they taste great?" she says. "The seeds are rich in vitamin E—one of the nutrients many people don’t get enough of—and phytonutrients, which some tend to be lacking in." Plus, they add visual appeal and crunch to dishes, she points out. (Check out this genius gadget that slices watermelon mess-free.)

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And so I hold on, for a while, and when it comes, it’s heaven in a raw, misshapen ceramic bowl (by local potter Judith Lasry, who is known for that deliberately unfinished style). The homemade yogurt is not too sour and not too sweet, and it’s topped with handfuls of Moko’s so-called freestyle granola that “changes based on ingredient availability and mood,” she says. The crunch I get today comes from toasted oats, glossy hazelnuts, and sunflower seeds, held together by rice syrup and melted brown sugar. She has topped it with chopped segments of tart, refreshing grapefruit, and torn pieces of fresh mint.

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"It is the chief of this world’s luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented."