In the produce section of every American chain grocery—from Maine to Florida, and down to the southwestern border—consumers will find a bounty of glossy, colorful Washington apples tempting their eyes. But this was not always the case. A century ago, apple eaters in the eastern cities would have found most of the apples available for sale had more regional origins. In Amanda Van Lanen's The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture, we learn that 69 percent of the apples produced in the United States in 2020 came from Washington State. How did apples from the northwestern corner of the country come to be so ubiquitous across the nation? That is the question Van Lanen seeks to answer in this fascinating account.