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  "name": "Cider donut season",
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  ],
  "said": "September to the first hard frost, and then the machine goes quiet."
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  "new-england",
  "upstate-ny",
  "upper-midwest"
 ],
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  "when": "September to November or December",
  "status": "seasonal"
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  "what": "The weeks when orchards and cider mills in the Northeast and Midwest run donut machines for the people who came to pick apples.",
  "story": "Cider donut season runs with the apple harvest: September through November or December. Grocery stores put them out as early as August. Food & Wine has pointed out that a year-round cider donut is unlikely to contain fresh-pressed cider.\n\nDonuts were autumn food long before this: the slaughter season produced the surplus fat to fry them in.",
  "today": "Leaf-peeping traffic and the donut window are the same business for six weeks a year."
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   "key": "upstate-ny",
   "name": "Upstate New York",
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   "note": "cider mills, the county fair"
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   "key": "upper-midwest",
   "name": "The Upper Midwest",
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   "title": "Cider doughnut — Wikipedia",
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