Marlene Champlin, better known as “The Squash Lady,” has spent the past 18 years perfecting recipes for Perry & Sons, a long-time family owned and run business from Manteca that handles and ships fresh watermelons, pumpkins and squash.Dedicating much of her time to searching the Internet and various magazines for recipes that she can thoroughly examine and prepare using Perry & Sons goods, Marlene will often tweak the recipes not necessarily to make them better than the original, but in such a way that brings out the best quality of flavor of Perry & Sons items. Once she created the taste she is looking for, she then shares those recipes with others through the company website, newsletter as well as through cooking classes or workshops. Marlene attempts to keep the focus for most recipes, especially the squash recipes, geared toward low-glycemic and Paleo diets for obvious health reasons.