Forget pumpkin spice! A cookbook author has brilliant ideas for how to add pumpkin to your menu

By Karla Walsh, CNN (CNN) — For Dan Pelosi, the first whisper of crisp autumnal temperatures means one thing: It’s pumpkin season. For far too long, pumpkin, and pumpkin spice in particular, has been “dinged as basic,” Pelosi said — the territory of “messy-bun sporting and scarf-wielding” coffee shop patrons, he noted in his new