Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
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    • Just Another Squash: 12,000 BCE to 1600
    • From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie: 1600 to 1799
    • The Making of a Rural New England Icon: 1800 to 1860
    • The Pumpkin and the Nation: 1861 to 1899
    • Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins: 1900 to 1945
    • The Changing Nature of Pumpkins: 1946 to the Present
    • The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies: 1946 to the Present
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“Pumpkin Spice Cookies,” cookie cutter & spices. Bark & Barkley, Inc., 1995.    

Pumpkin Cookie Cutters

“Pumpkin Spice Cookies” epitomize the deep meanings yet superficial quality of many pumpkin foods produced at the turn of the twenty-first century.  The product consists of a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter, a small packet of pumpkin spice and a recipe that contains flour, sugar and butter but no pumpkin. The image of the pumpkin – as an icon of a quaint, old-fashioned farm - is what sells the product, not the vegetable's fleshy, meaty substance. 
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