why pumpkin pie? (cheesecake!)

ingredients

This was bob's first encounter with hazelnuts. In liquid form. By coincidence one of his sister-in-laws stumbled upon this recipe at the same time as bob, maybe Bon Appetit, and somehow made it and shipped bob a piece by mail crossing paths with a copy of the recipe sent to her by bob without each other realizing the other's simultaneous activities. Wierd.
Well, a google search on "pumpkin cheesecake frangelico" turns up the exact recipe in a motherload of cheesecake recipes but with no citation of the original source. Another hobby site like this one. Just for fun, not making any money. And again at a booze site, no citation. And again at a Jewish cheesecake site, no citation. Funny how these things get around in the public domain.
This was an annual fall favorite until his then newly acquired in-laws made it known they liked plain old pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. Oh well.
Apparently there was some inertia in dr bob's postdoc mentality as he embarked on his career as a professor. Looking back from later affluence, it is a bit strange to think of having worried about the price tag on an unpretentious bottle of alcohol.