Inspired by the down-home taste of the Pennsylvania Dutch, these recipes are the perfect answer when you're craving a cozy, hearty meal.

Tucked close to the border of Pennsylvania and Maryland, the borough of Hanover, Pa., population 16,000, is a long way from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. A farming center with an industrial core, prior ...

Once thought to be headed for extinction, they still roam the countryside in Berks, Lehigh and Northampton counties in great numbers. Possessing a distinct sound like no other creature, they seemed to ...

If you heave, you leave. That's the rule at the inaugural Eating Contest at this year's Reading Fair, which runs Aug. 7 through Aug. 13. Contestants will eat Berks County's signature foods as fast as ...

At one time in the Lehigh Valley, many people spoke the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. There were sections of the paper devoted to the dialect, and speakers gathered at Versommlings and Grundsau Lodsch ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On any Amish homestead, after labor’s last push and a check for 10 fingers and 10 toes, family members have heard one of two things for centuries. “Sis en Bu” or “Sis en Maedel.” ...

Pennsylvania Dutch Heritage Group meets in York monthly, where they read, speak and sing songs in Pennsylvania Dutch. Germans, recruited by William Penn, were mainly from the southwestern Palatine ...

The Amish population in North America nearly doubles every 20 years, according to a 2023 study by Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. This suggests the number of ...