This October, I traveled to upstate New York, the area where I grew up. It made me reminisce about apple season, and how much I enjoyed the simple pleasure of a crisp apple picked right from the tree.

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Leyland White of Minneapolis said “people look at me like I am crazy” when he talks about an apple pie “with cheese baked right into it” that his mother, from Wisconsin, used to make. But two readers ...