{"id":7379,"date":"2015-10-23T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2015-10-23T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:55:51","slug":"get-your-pumpkin-spice-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/7379","title":{"rendered":"Get your pumpkin spice fix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pumpkin-spice-everything\"By Christina Vazquez–<\/strong>Fall in America brings promises of apple orchards, Halloween, and of course, pumpkin spice.<\/p>\n

The first mention of pumpkin spice in modern day America traces back to a cook book published by Amelia Simmons in the late seventeen-hundreds. Christine Amario<\/a>, from the Portland Press Herald, explains that \u201cin it, she includes a recipe for \u2018pompkin pudding,\u2019 a pie made with stewed pumpkin and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.\u201d<\/p>\n

The American affinity for pumpkin spice didn\u2019t stop there; the real craze began twelve years ago. Pumpkin spice is in everything American these days, from baked goods to candles.<\/p>\n

However, it is by far best known in the form of coffee, specifically lattes. Pumpkin spice lattes, most famously promoted by the Starbucks restaurant chain, have taken the country by storm. \u201cStarbucks\u2019 pumpkin spice latte, which the company has called its \u2018most popular seasonal beverage of all time,\u2019 was created 12 years ago,\u201d reports ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ever since then, the pumpkin spice craze has only grown ever stronger, but not everyone is excited about the growing trend in the flavor. Fox News\u2019 Stephanie Green<\/a>, for one, does not welcome the \u201cGreat Pumpkin Spice Season.\u201d She thinks the pumpkin spice craze has gone too far, making otherwise clever and tasteful citizens into \u201ccultural cretins.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, she goes on to make a point that Americans in general \u201cjust don\u2019t know when and where to stop,\u201d and implies that the pumpkin spice obsession is a symptom of the much greater disease of excess in American culture. More evidence of the artificiality of American culture is the ironic fact that despite the growth in the pumpkin spice flavor, actual pumpkin sales are going down.<\/p>\n

Mary Beth Quirk<\/a>, from Consumerist, cites data from Nielsen: \u201cThe data shows that the pumpkin flavor trend is nowhere near stopping, and has become a staple of the autumn season \u2026[However] fresh pumpkins are being left out of the fad fun, with sales declining every year in 2011, 2013 and 2014.\u201d Overall, over eight million fewer pumpkins have been sold as compared to previous years.<\/p>\n

Still, the skeptics and critics may yet be appeased, at least in regard to the artificiality of this aspect of American pop culture. Starbucks is bringing back pumpkin spice in its most traditional sense.<\/p>\n

ABC\u2019s Susanna Kim<\/a> reports that the \u201cStarbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte will be made with actual pumpkin this year.\u201d This use of genuine pumpkin in such a widely heralded representation of pumpkin spice as the Pumpkin Spice Latte might be the result of a concentrated effort to turn American artificiality on its head.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019s just because it tastes good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Christina Vazquez–Fall in America brings promises of apple orchards, Halloween, and of course, pumpkin spice. The first mention of pumpkin spice in modern day America traces back to a cook book published by Amelia Simmons in the late seventeen-hundreds. Christine Amario, from the Portland Press Herald, explains that \u201cin it, she includes a recipe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7381,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}