Given the new stay-at-home orders here in California, now may be a good time to stockpile winter squashes. Perhaps the first comfort food (they’ve been around more than 9,000 years), winter squash is ...

I find the best squashes are the orange-coloured ones. Their flesh seems firmer and they cook to a creamier texture than the white fleshed variety. Look out for orange pumpkins and butternut squash, ...