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World’s Fastest Crimper Competition – do you have what it takes?

Welcome to the World’s Fastest Crimper competition  Think you have what it takes to crimp like lightning? Join the Cornish Pasty Association at the Great Cornish Food Store for  the first ever amateur crimping competition on Saturday March 2nd 2025.  Show off your crimping skills and compete against others to see who can crimp the […]

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Passing of Mark Norton

It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing of CPA board member and Managing Director of the Prima Bakeries Group, Mark Norton. Mark was a keen supporter of the PGI and a passionate member of the CPA. In recent years, he was a driving force behind the Cornish Pasty Community Fund and was […]

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Cornish Pasty Week 2025 – What’s Happening…

Cornish Pasty Week 2025 will see pasty makers around the county raising money for local schools and inspiring the next generation of cooks and bakers whilst also bringing back some much loved aspects of Cornish Pasty Week of old.  In 2024, Cornish Pasty Week saw pasty makers raising a whopping £20,000 for cookery initiatives within […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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