Cracker Barrel has been in the news a lot in the last year. From the disastrous rollout of their new logo, which prompted President Trump to declare, “Make Cracker Barrel a WINNER again,” and eventually saw the company revert to its former branding, to an internal memo about employee dining rules that recently leaked and went viral , things haven’t been easy lately for the beloved Southern restaurant chain.   However, when I saw “Cracker Barrel” trending, I wasn’t thinking about any of that. I thought about my mother — and imagined the sound of her flip phone crackling to life in the woods of Ohio as she opened a Styrofoam clamshell of fried apples. Ordering Cracker Barrel for my mom became our unlikely connection. I remember my phone buzzing and a message appearing: “Your DoorDash order has been delivered.” But the meal hadn’t arrived at my home in Brooklyn.…