Steve Puleo is the author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 . On January 15, 1919, 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed, flooding Boston's North End with the sticky substance.

In Boston on January 15, 1919, a tank of molasses burst, releasing a thick, sugary tsunami that killed 21 people and injured 150. On its centennial, reporter Julia Press looks back at the accident's ...

On Jan. 15, 1919, a tank that contained more than 2 million gallons of molasses ruptured, killing 21 people and injuring more than 100 others. It destroyed buildings, killed animals and coated ...

You might be familiar with the Boston Tea Party, but for many Bostonians, there’s another food-centric event that comes to mind as they reflect on local history: the Great Molasses Flood. When a surge ...

BOSTON (AP) — The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 — one of Boston’s most peculiar disasters — killed 21 people, injured 150 others and flattened buildings when a giant storage tank ruptured. Now Harvard ...

Twenty-one dead, 150 injured and one neighborhood devastated, all because of delicious molasses. The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, took place almost 100 years ago, ...

This week on Good Food with Evan Kleiman, details on the sting operation that revealed whale meat being served at a Santa Monica restaurant. Plus Jonathan Gold, a ride along with the Dim Sum Truck and ...

It was an average day in North Boston, a sunny and cool January afternoon in 1919. As the residents went about their daily lives their world suddenly morphed into a scene from a B rated horror movie ...