By Chris Livemore I am going to start this blog by letting you know that there were no pumpkins in medieval Britain. Not a single one. Pumpkins came from the Americas and only reached Europe after the medieval period in the 16th century. They were first mentioned by Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard in 1597, so we know pumpkins, or 'pompions' as they were known back then, were grown in Tudor gardens, but missed the Middle Ages. So whatever people were doing at the end of Octo