In his wiry hair that was the color of ditchwater a small pumpkin seed shone.

NEWYORKER: Pumpkin Head

Recent entrees included grilled chicken pumpkin seed mole, miso yaki butterfish, and grilled game hen and sweet bitters.

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Hadley saw that the pumpkin seed unless it was a second seed, or a bit of pumpkin gristle still glistened in his wiry hair, which looked as if it needed shampooing and would be coarse to the touch.

NEWYORKER: Pumpkin Head

The parent hybrid pumpkin was grown by Ron Wallace in the United States and the seed was sold as one of 23 lots at an online auction.

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