Apple pie served with a thick slice of sharp Vermont cheddar laid over the warm crust. A Vermont winter classic; the proverb runs 'an apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze.'

English settlers brought the cheese-and-apple-pie tradition over in the 17th and 18th centuries; the practice caught on across northern New England because both the apples (Champlain Valley McIntosh, Cortland, Empire) and the cheddar were Vermont-made and turned up on the same farmhouse table. The pie shows up on autumn menus across Burlington-area farm-to-table rooms September through November; Frankie's and Hen of the Wood have both run versions, and the canonical home pairing is Cabot Clothbound or a sharp Shelburne Farms two-year aged cheddar laid over a still-warm slice.

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