Pumpkin-Seed Oil

The World Center for Quality Is Austria

I CAME ACROSS AUSTRIAN PUMPKIN-SEED oil for the first time recently in a rural New England farm shop; it was one of the outside products seeded among the local ones. The dark-green 100-ml bottle at $15 was an impulse purchase. You can find the oil for less, but it isn’t cheap even in Austria. Refined oils are greasy; unrefined oils like this one disappear on the tongue. The Austrian oil is dark, cloudy, thick without being heavy, nutty, malty, roasted plus something fresher and lighter. It’s special, and a little goes a long way.