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The seasonal basket

October ingredients

7 ingredients worth organizing your week around. Each page explains why now, how to choose it, and what to do with it.

Kabocha squash Kabocha is the squash that comes after the thin-skinned early ones — dense, dry, and sweet… Red bell peppers A red pepper is a green pepper left on the plant long enough to ripen, and by the end of t… Sweet potatoes California's sweet potatoes are dug in September and October, most of them in the Central … Arugula Arugula is a cool-weather green. In summer heat it bolts and turns harsh; planted in Septe… Pomegranates California grows nearly all of the country's pomegranates, and the harvest runs from late … Medjool dates Nearly every Medjool in the country is grown in the desert two hours from here, in the Coa… Rockfish fillets Rockfish is the local fish that gets more reliable as the water cools in fall: dozens of s…