Why should the calendar’s creepiest date be forever in the grip of Big Pumpkin? Here are some horrifying delights, whether you most fancy monster feet or zombie brains
I will never understand why pumpkins have the monopoly on Halloween, as they have for two or three decades. People used to make lanterns from turnips, or swedes, but pumpkins are just easier to carve even if there is nothing remotely scary about them, just as there is nothing melancholy about a cabbage or spellbinding about kohlrabi. And don’t even get me started on “pumpkin-spice”. So, in the spirit of advocating a pumpkin-free Halloween, here are 10 spooky recipes, all mercifully created without the tyranny of Big Pumpkin.
