UTICA — Prior to attending Saturday's Tomato Pie Day festivities in Utica, I was offered some advice — or maybe it was a warning — from a co-worker: "Don't call it pizza," he said. The topic of tomato ...

Most pizza places and Italian delis in Utica have their own versions of tomato pie. Just don't ask where the savory dish got its start. "That will be a debate that nobody will ever win," said Charlie ...

Utica Bakery offers the city's standard array of baked goods like tomato pie, half-moon cookies and pasticciotti. But the bakery is a 700-mile drive from Utica, in the town of Apex, near Raleigh, ...

(It’s a debate every Central New Yorker has had at some point: Who’s got the best pizza? This year, we’ll do our best to find out. I’m on a quest to find the best pizza shops in the Syracuse area.