Found any zucchini on your doorstep lately? Maybe not, because this summer American home cooks are turning an overabundance of the plump green squash into zucchini bread and zucchini cake in record numbers. Zucchini-related searches on Allrecipes.com are up 191% YoY and a whopping 49% this week alone (based on external searches). If their garden isn’t peaking ahead of schedule because of all the heat we’ve had, home cooks are stocking up at the farmers’ market and grocery store. Zucchini is always affordable.

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