The time has come, friends. If you haven't carved yet this month, grab a knife and get ye to the nearest pumpkin. If you have carved then waste no more time and enter our 2011 Carving Contest. The prizes, you ask? Besides serious carving street cred, the three winning pumpkins will get a signed copy of the Serious Eats book! Jamón agreed to a few more pawtographs, too. More

It's time for our fourth annual Serious Eats Pumpkin Carving Contest where we break from eating pumpkins (and their roasted seeds) to whittle away at their orange, plump, gourdy faces. Let this Ed-o'-Lantern inspire you to enter. More