Come Friday October 31, the festival of Halloween will be celebrated all across the world. The young and the old alike observe this day with playful tricks, delicious treats, outlandish masks, colourful costumes, surreal decorations and eventful parties. Among a tapestry of items included in the spectacular supernatural spread, intricately crafted hollow pumpkin masks and Halloween jack-o-lanterns —widely used as ornate pieces and sculptures — grab the eyeballs at large.

Portly Pumpkin

It’s big, round, orangy and a descendant of the Cucurbita (gourd) lineage. Born as a fruit with grooves but considered and used as a vegetable, pumpkin is a variety of farmed winter squash. It’s pumped up with nutrients. The bloated edible — consumed both fried and boiled — is characterised by its fat, hea

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