I bought a Kent pumpkin, although no one at the check out stand knew what kind of pumpkin it was.  I told them, “It’s a Kent pumpkin.” But the prices listed were only for butternut and acorn squash.  They decided to ignore me, and then both agreed it was a dumpling squash.  It was a Kent pumpkin, which is about five times the size of any dumpling squash, but I didn’t argue with them.  Sometimes grocery clerks can only believe varieties that are in the book with a code next to the name– and sometimes we are lucky to have some extra varieties sneak in to the produce section, like this Kent pumpkin did. Kent pumpkins, as I learned from the winter edition of…