PHOTOS: This Is What It Looks Like When A New Apple Comes To Town : The Salt This spring, orchards in Washington state are being ripped up to make room for a new apple variety called Cosmic Crisp.

Once you get home, you can make apple pie, apple crisp, and my favorite treat of all time: caramel apples. For any pics you snap, you'll need captions for caramel apples.

As opposed to apple crisp's relatively recent origins, apple pies date back centuries. The first reference to the dish can be found in the 14th century.

The iced Apple Crisp Macchiato was definitely nice and refreshing, and I could taste that hint of autumn inspiration. But, overall, the flavor didn't really stand out to me the way new Starbucks ...

Work on developing the variety began in 1997. Kate Evans, who co-led the apple's breeding programme at Washington State University, said: "It's ultra-crisp, very juicy and has a good balance of ...