10/06/2026
Pumpkin spice is older than the country. 🍂
Long before it landed in your mug, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves were traveling the spice routes from Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Early American cooks paired them with pumpkin, and in 1796 Amelia Simmons published one of the first American cookbooks, complete with a spiced "pompkin" pudding baked in a crust.
By the 1930s, spice companies started selling the blend premixed and labeled for pumpkin pie, which saved home bakers a lot of measuring. For decades it stayed right there, in the pie tin.
Then coffee caught on. Espresso, steamed milk, and that familiar warm spice turned out to be a natural match, and the pumpkin spice latte became the unofficial start of fall in coffee shops across the country.
Here in Scottville, we make ours with real espresso and a blend that tastes like a fall afternoon on Main Street. Over 200 years in the making, and still worth the wait.
Come grab one before the leaves are gone. ☕
