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Fall makes me miss Japan more.

-sanma (Pacific sauries) with sudachi (some obscure citrus)
-kabocha
-chestnut in a form of Japanese sweets
-Japanese sweet potatoes
-many kinds of mushrooms, esp maitake

now, in the US, I'm overly excited about the arrival of the BAKING SEASON. oh yeah.

apple pie
funnel cake

squash-all varieties, but particularly butternut
soups, stews, & chili
halloween candy

anything which does not contain squash in any form

@gastronomeg: YES to the halloween candy! I love candy corn! Stupid, I know, but it's so great.

I'm with all these bits about pumpkin and other squash. Yummmm.

Ah, my mother's chicken and dumplings...

I love love beautiful fall apples and pears, too.

@machellebelle- King Arthur has a great one in one of their cookbooks, I'm sure you could find it by checking google or the KA website.

Pumpkin anything but pie
Sweet potato anything but pie
winter squashes
fresh cranberries
chicken chili
Mexican chicken soup
vegetable soup

I LOVE pumpkin as well, and eat a lot of pumpkin flavoured/spiced anything. So far, I've had pumpkin soup, latte, and cheesecake. All were very yummy :)
Also enjoy the apple harvest. I go to pick-your-own farms and get bushels of apples. We go through a lot of apples per week in my family, and most of them are eaten whole. However, I do make apple pies, breads, baked apples, etc. Love me some baked goods during the fall.
Soup is another thing that I enjoy having in the fall. The cooler weather just puts me in a soup-eating mood, and I make all kinds of soup. Among my favourites are vegetable and dumpling soup, butternut, broccoli and cheese, chili, and curried carrot soup. Yum!
Talking about making all these foods reminds me of lack of kitchen access, which is very sad for me. I am away from home, living in a college dorm, so no cooking for me this fall T_T And no apple picking! Damn, this sucks.

Ditto on anything made with pumpkin and sweet potatoes, particularly baked with butter, brown sugar & cinnamon, rice pudding with raisins, custard, corn chowder, beans and corn bread, good bread pudding with whiskey sauce, warm gingerbread with whipped cream, potato sausage, pecan pie, chicken & dumplings, any kind of homemade soup, and if I'm in a hurry, 3 can soup.

Deeberry, I'm totally with you on the pumpkin addiction - I can't wait for some sugar-free pumpkin pie!! Since I'm diabetic, I don't really get to eat all the yummy fall treats I bake, but I do enjoy baking pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting, pumpkin spice bread, and pumpkin cheesecake for my family. I also adore baking gingerbread, apple crumb pie, pecan pie (seems like a fall food to me), and sweet potato casserole. Making caramel apples with all sorts of fun toppings is fun too! And there is no way I can forget to mention my LOVE for candy corn - yay to Target for their gourmet flavors!!

Apple pie
beef stew

@machellebelle and dmcavanagh: King Arthur also has a great spiced pumpkin rolled cake with a cream cheese filling. will look for that recipe later in the day

brussel sprouts are my fav, but I also love spaghetti squash, butternut squash, pumpkin and apples in the Fall. It's my favorite time of year!

brussel sprouts cooked in bacon fat
yams and sweet potatoes
beef bourginon
apple crisp, apple cake, spiked cider, baked apples, apple dumplings
roasted chicken with herb butter shoved under the skin
french onion soup
chili & cornbread

PUMPKIN!!!!! Anything.

Too bad I'm studying abroad in the UK right now and I have yet to find canned pumpkin ANYWHERE! I asked a worker at the local grocery store if they had any, and he looked at me like I was crazy.

I will not go the entire fall without some pumpkin bread though, so I think I will just have to break down and roast up a fresh pumpkin myself and make my own puree. More time consuming, yes...but oh, it'll be worth it!

I'm with watchforbears, anything apple. Make mine Macoun.

Roasted sweet potatoes. At the Asian markets around me, they'll often set up big metal drums and roast them and sell them by the paper bagful. The roasting aroma is the very essence of fall.

Fall is also the season for mushrooms, also my mom's herbtastic chicken soup.

It's got all kinds of medicinal herbs in it but it's so good you forget all about them, its supposed to bolster the heaty properties in your body in preparation for winter! The soup is a comfort and a cure all for everything from a cold to fall allergies.

Also weirdly enough, around this time of year is wax apple season in California. Until very recently, wax apples were nearly impossible to find in the U.S let alone any that didn't taste like packing peanuts. We just ordered a few straight from a farm in CA and my mom was elated. She said they tasted just like they did in Taiwan.
If the crops continue to be a success in California, I have a feeling we'll be sending out for more of these every year.

pumpkin, cinnamon, chocolate, apple, ... we really do go overboard on the apple baking though.

I'm also a pumpkin kinda gal. I love all the fall/Halloween treats, even the much maligned candy corn. But pumpkin stuff (pie, bread, butter, cake, soup, curry, cookies etc.), along with gingerbread, are my special favorites.

@bareneed: We have delicata squash here in Oregon and I've seen it other places on the West coast. Fall is my favorite and I'm actually cooking a big Fall dinner this evening. On the menu: Herb-roasted salmon (which my dad just caught this weekend!) with wine-wine butter sauce, chanterelle mushroom risotto, and a salad of maple glazed delicata squash with blue cheese, warm bacon cider vinaigrette, on top of baby greens! Yay Fall!