Try the roasted butternut squash soup with spicy pumpkin seeds, and the creamy polenta with mascarpone, walnuts and gorgonzola.

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That means freshmen like Chen don't have to scrape out the pumpkin seeds or do unspeakable things with them.

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Unusual Japanese mains include combinations such as foie gras, kale, edamame and pumpkin seeds, or Texas quail, yellow beans, Chinese artichokes, curry and quail egg.

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Dishes might include exotic concoctions such as delicate puffed tapioca and jasmine rice with pumpkin seeds and mushroom floss, or South Australian squid in aromatic smoked leek linseed and garlic flower broth.

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So we carve pumpkins, we eat the pumpkin seeds.

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Dishes, which get their inspiration from southern France, northern Africa, Spain and Greece, include charred octopus (which seems to be on every Manhattan menu these days), lemon-saffron linguini, spiced swordfish kebabs and braised goat served with escarole and pumpkin seeds.

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Fifty years ago, on October 30, 1961, when most Americans were carving out pumpkins and cooking pumpkin seeds on the eve of the most spookiest night of the year, our then-mortal enemies, the Soviet Union, had two of its military pilots flying a beastly Tu-95 bomber over the Arctic Ocean.

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On his angular face and in the stiff, wiry hair that receded sharply from his forehead were bits of pumpkin flesh and seeds, at which Anton wiped, surreptitiously, the way a boy might wipe at his runny nose.

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She could see that the innards had been scooped out, but negligently, so that seeds remained, bits of pumpkin gristle.

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