Report from the grocery store

If you like apples at all you need to try the honeycrisp. What used to be a boutique, lesser-distributed apple is now mass-produced, and it puts the others to shame. Crispy as a Fuji, with a taste that is both sweet and refreshingly lemon-like. I've never had anything like it. Put it this way: If we had been in Eve's shoes, and THIS was the apple, we probably might have said, "No way, snake ... I'm not touching that thing ... but, what did you say? HONEYCRISP? Well, then, hand it over."

For th...