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Redruth International Mining and Pasty Festival
The Redruth International Mining and Pasty Festival is set to run on 20-21 September, with Saturday as the celebration of the great Cornish Pasty! The Cornish Pasty Association will be running a pasty making marquee on Saturday 20 September. The marquee will be open from 9.30-4 and children aged 5-16 can book a session to […]
Cornish Pasty Week 2024 – Supporting Local Schools
Cornish Pasty Week 2024 will see pasty makers around the county raising money for local schools and inspiring the next generation of cooks and bakers. In 2023, Cornish Pasty Week introduced the Cornish Pasty Community Fund, with pasty makers raising a whopping £14,500 for a local food redistribution charity. This year the fund will support […]
Tall Ships 2023
As Falmouth welcomes some of the biggest tall ships in the World for the prestigious Magelian Elcano Race 2023, the Cornish Pasty Association was invited by the Ambassador of Mexico, Ms Josefa Gonzalez Blanco to attend a reception on the ARM Cuauhtemoc Sailing Tall Ship from the Mexican Navy. Walking down the dock towards […]
Passing of Mark Duddridge
The team at the Cornish Pasty Association were all incredibly shocked and saddened by the news that one of our dear friends and a huge supporter of our industry, Mark Duddridge, passed away suddenly in May. Mark was instrumental in setting up our Association and in tirelessly working with the pasty makers of Cornwall […]
Together we raised £14,500 to tackle food poverty in Cornwall
The Cornish Pasty community has shown how good it can be to work together for a collective purpose by raising a whopping £14,500 for local food redistribution charity, Devon & Cornwall Food Action. During Cornish Pasty Week 2023, we invited makers and sellers of genuine Cornish pasties to come together and pledge either a specific […]
Cornish Pasty Week is back with a new initiative – the Cornish Pasty Community Fund
27th February – 5th March 2023 – Be a part of it! Cornish Pasty Week returns this year with a brand new initiative raising funds to help alleviate food poverty. Anyone making or selling genuine Cornish pasties is invited to participate by agreeing to donate either a specific amount of money from every Cornish […]
Tin pasties for the 10th World Pasty Championships
After its break due to Covid in 2021, the planets aligned for the return of the World Pasty Championships this year and it really was a day to remember. Clear blue skies and spring sunshine glinted off the Eden Project biomes, creating the perfect backdrop for the 10th anniversary of this competition, made even more […]
10th World Pasty Championships to take place on St Piran’s Day 2022
We’re delighted to announce that the 10th World Pasty Championships will take place at the Eden Project on March 5th 2022. How fitting for this milestone achievement to take place on St Piran’s Day itself and, after an enforced break for the Championships last year, we can’t think of a better way of celebrating their […]
With no World Pasty Championships or Cornish Pasty Week on our horizon, our January days have sadly lost their usual hustle and bustle this year. But, while once we hoped we were wrong to be thinking of postponing these events this year, the recent statistics confirm all too alarmingly why it was right not […]
Cornish Pasty Week & World Pasty Championships – update
The Eden Project and the Cornish Pasty Association have decided to postpone the World Pasty Championships and Cornish Pasty Week due to take place in late February 2021 because these events would be difficult to stage safely during the pandemic. We look forward to celebrating Cornwall’s favourite food the following year when the World Pasty […]
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