the.com/yellow squash
Zucchini's sunnier cousin, equally eager to take over your garden and your fridge.
means A soft-skinned summer squash with pale yellow skin, mild flavor, and a tendency to go from 'perfect' to 'baseball bat-sized' overnight.
from 'Squash' comes from askutasquash, a word from Narragansett (an Algonquian language of the northeastern US) roughly meaning 'eaten raw or uncooked,' borrowed by English colonists in the 1600s and clipped down to 'squash.' 'Yellow' is just the plain old English color word, inherited from Germanic roots — no mystery there, the vegetable simply earned its name by being exactly as advertised.
- actual identity
- a summer squash, harvested immature, skin and all
- color source
- carotenoid pigments, same family as carrots
- texture trap
- mostly water, turns mushy if overcooked fast
- garden reality
- one plant can outproduce an entire neighborhood's demand