The nutritional difference between canned and fresh pumpkin is mainly the vitamin C content.

Booths along the Croton River will sell fresh pumpkins, apples, pears and a selection of gourds and Indian corn.

First there is his conventional take on the autumn dessert, which he makes with fresh pumpkin from the Union Square Greenmarket bolstered with some of the canned variety.

Every October as kids, we loved to go pumpkin picking and buy fresh pumpkins.

The canned version is more dense than fresh pumpkin, with a slightly sweet yet acidic flavor.

Pumpkin sales in this country certainly peak in the weeks before Halloween, when most people buy the only fresh pumpkins they will own all year.

Frustrated on all fronts, he puts the infant up for adoption, going so far as to visit and interview prospective parents who seem ideal ("How 'bout some fresh pumpkin bread?"

My ambitious plan to use fresh pumpkin dissolved with the absence of my assistant, so canned pumpkin, which actually is not bad, had to do.

We wouldn't take hayrides out on the farms and pick fresh pumpkins off the vines.

Pumpkin bread is usually baked in a rectangular loaf pan, and is often cooked in late fall when fresh pumpkins are available.