Pie à la Mode is listed as originating in what country?

Pie à la Mode is listed as originating in the United States.

The dessert is pie served with ice cream, most commonly apple pie with a scoop of vanilla. Although its name uses the French phrase à la mode, meaning fashionable or in the current style, the dish is treated as an American creation rather than a French one.

The Wikipedia entry identifies Minnesota as its region and credits John Gieriet of Duluth’s Hotel la Perl. A hotel menu from 1885 reportedly listed pie with ice cream, supporting the Minnesota claim. Another popular story attributes the dish’s name to Charles Watson Townsend at a hotel in Cambridge, New York, in the 1890s.

That competing origin story explains why histories sometimes mention New York instead of Minnesota. Both claims are within the United States, so the country-level answer remains stable. The phrase is also broader than apple pie: other sweet pies can be served à la mode.