Cooks from around the world will head to Cornwall in March for the first World Pasty Championships.
Cooks from around the world will head to Cornwall in March for the first World Pasty Championships.
The event will be held at the Eden Project, St Austell, to celebrate the popular local delicacy, which was given protected status under EU law earlier in 2011. The Cornish pasty was first associated with tin miners in the county and was a dietary staple for many workers in the 18th century yet the Oxford English dictionary dates its origin as early as the 1300s.
The Cornish Pasty Association, which is backing the event, hopes people locally and across the world will take part. Phil Ugalde of the Association said: 'If you know anything about Cornwall, you know that pasty-making is a very emotive subject. People feel very proud of it - this was the original fast food.'
Gaynor Coley, managing director of the Eden Project, said: 'The pasty is one of the great icons of Cornwall and also one of its best exports, carried in the hands of all those hardy mining families who left this coast and who took their skills - and their favourite food - across the world.'
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