Carey,
Thanks! Even Bayless mentions the mystery though:
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Though its flesh and seeds supplied nourishment to the locals for millenia, not too many savory calabaza recipes show up in cookbooks or restaurants or on special-occasion tables. Yet heavy slices hacked from big pumpkins always are for sale in my local Mexican grocery.
... including your own, Rick. I flipped through two of your cookbooks and checked the index; zero pumpkin recipes.
Maybe it's like fish and Turkish cookbooks. According to one cookbook author, while the Turkish eat fish (and a fair amount too), it's considered what you eat if you can't afford meat. So you didn't see Turkish recipes for fish in cookbooks until non-Turkish people started writing them. Maybe Mexicans consider pumpkin desperation food, and thus not worth publishing recipes on.
Do we have a Mexican on the board?