Within a few minutes, the women said, they were beaten, scratched, kicked and pummeled with newspapers, lemons and miniature pumpkins as someone yelled, "I hate white people," adding an expletive.

Golden nugget, a tiny orange variety, which looks like a miniature pumpkin, is also good for this.

Her foot smashed a miniature pumpkin as she jumped down and began to elbow her way through the crush, repeatedly asking, "Excuse me, but has anyone seen Mr. Lennox?"

For dessert, miniature pumpkins filled with a coconut milk custard were charming and delicious.

For dessert there will be miniature pumpkins filled with brandied pumpkin mousse, ginger-laced cookies and strawberry tarts with framboise cream.

The moist meat was served in a pear-cider sauce with a miniature pumpkin stuffed with cranberries on the side; it made me wish pheasant was our national bird.

He starts by baking the miniature pumpkins, filled with a spiced milk to infuse the flesh.

For openers, a miniature roasted pumpkin was stuffed with a ragout of big chunks of lobster, rounds of fall vegetables and black truffles.

James Holmes's glass containers look like miniature pumpkins that were dipped in Easter egg dyes of green, indigo and yellow.

Ashtrays were fashioned from miniature pumpkins, scooped out and filled with sand.