Oh, I think that's how it is for many people. We only slowly learn to appreciate the value of some things. Especially when things we took for granted are suddenly no longer there.
As a child, it was quite normal to make everything edible and everything else we needed ourselves. It was work, and I wasn't particularly interested in it. Today, I sometimes regret not having paid more attention to certain things.
As far as pumpkin is concerned, I can plead not guilty because we didn't have any at home. The only dish I can cook is pumpkin soup :-)
I can't boast about being able to cook anything with pumpkin, even though it was very readily available where I grew up.
I trust my wife to cook pumpkin; she's excellent at it, but I specialize more in smoking meat and fish, or pickling vegetables in barrels :)
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