Zucca Gialla alla Calabrese

This colourful, tasty vegetable dish is almost a salad, and is good served with cold meats, especially roast beef. Pumpkins originated in Central America and would have found their way to Italy along with tomatoes, potatoes and tobacco, with New World explorers. This recipe calls for the yellow-fleshed pumpkin that holds its shape when fried, rather than disintegrating into mush.