We associate most holidays with specific foods, and as it turns out, often, those celebratory foods offer us a particular type of healing much needed for that season. Fall is a transitional time of really slowing down and changing where we spend most of our time, the type of activities we do, amount of sleep and how we eat. So many changes at once cause the  all too familiar season of colds/flu/bronchitis..... we are vulnerable. Eating certain foods though, can help us keep and build strength, enhance our immune systems and allow us to ease into seasonal change. Winter is the time to utilize heavy spices for health, but Fall offers us the last goodies from the garden--those that are late to mature and easy to store: squash, .........