James Gop

Three ways to treat pumpkin as an ingredient, not a flavor: fire-roasted cavatelli, a fresh pumpkin bourbon cocktail, and wood-fired pumpkin pie, with a short history of how pumpkin got here.

One ear of corn becomes three different things: salty corn cob ice cream, sweet corn caramel and a corn-silk bourbon coupe, plus maize history and practical ways to use the husks.

A crystal-clear tomato martini made with ripe summer tomatoes, vodka, dry vermouth, MSG and a brined green tomato garnish, without the laboratory equipment I used the first time around.