MORTON, Ill. — Every year between August and early November, Steve Beuttel eats a lot of pumpkin pie.
“I try to make it every day, and I’m usually pretty good at it” — it being what he calls quality control.
Beuttel is the operations manager for the Libby’s pumpkin cannery that’s at the epicenter of the canned-pumpkin world: the small central Illinois town of Morton.