Author Dan Pelosi tops ravioli with a creamy pumpkin sauce in his new cookbook. Johnny Miller

For Dan Pelosi, the first whisper of crisp autumnal temperatures means one thing: It’s pumpkin season.

For far too long, pumpkin, and pumpkin spice in particular, has been “dinged as basic,” Pelosi said — the territory of “messy-bun sporting and scarf-wielding” coffee shop patrons , he noted in his new cookbook, “ Let’s Party : Recipes and Menus for Celebrating Every Day.”

Pelosi devoted an entire chapter to pumpkin spice in his new cookbook. Union Square & Co.

But Pelosi fully embraces the cliché, slipping on wool socks, rocking a cozy sweater, relishing in the vibrant fall foliage and proudly declaring, “I’m a Pumpkin Spice Girl.”

“I adore it so much there’s an entire ‘Pumpkin Spice

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