Pumpkin-Spice (fill in the blank here): The Food Industry Needs to Calm Down
For those of you not in the know, Starbucks just began offering its beloved “seasonal” pumpkin-spiced latte on August 27th (this past week). August 27th. Now, I don’t know about you, but when I think about anything pumpkin-related, I usually envision cool October evenings, changing autumn leaves, and Halloween decorations – not air-conditioning, mosquitoes, and the smell of sunscreen in the air. I don’t think that local pumpkins are even ripe in the fields yet. Still – following in the…