The question started with a hazy memory, of being a kid in Providence, no older than age 11, and a small section of the city with a funny name: Shoo Fly. This reader remembered being a young man and ...

The supply of Lancaster County-made shoo-fly pie plunged earlier this month. Dutch Haven, a shoo-fly pie bakery and gift shop that sold tens of thousands of the molasses-based pies with a crumb ...

Above: A harmless hover fly feeding on sweaty skin. These flies appear in mid- to late-summer. The 1860s song of this title has retained some popularity through the years. Who has not been annoyed by ...

Apple, pumpkin, pecan and sweet potato pie have become staple desserts on Thanksgiving tables across the U.S. But there are seemingly endless local and regional pies enjoyed by Americans on Turkey Day ...

But here on Pi Day, members of Pennsylvania’s tight-knit yet crumbly shoofly pie community are ready to circle the ovens and bake a stand. "I see no reason why we shouldn’t call things ‘as American as ...