Ode to Pumpkin Pie

I’m up early on Thanksgiving morning, like the woman in the nursery rhyme, — Dame get up and bake your pies! It’s time to prepare filling for the pumpkin pie, which has always been my favorite pie. Throughout my childhood, Mom made pumpkin pie for the holidays. She had perfected her recipe so that the custard filling was permeated with pumpkin taste but didn’t taste like a vegetable plus it had a melt-in-the mouth texture that was delicate and soft, never…