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Cornish Foodways — the Duchy

Ethnolinguistic

⚠ CORNWALL HAS ITS OWN LANGUAGE AND A RECOGNISED NATIONAL MINORITY STATUS granted in 2014, and CORNISH is a revived Brittonic language related to Breton and Welsh, not to English. Its food: the CORNISH PASTY, protected, with beef, potato, swede and onion, crimped on the side and carried down the mine; saffron cake, from a spice trade that reached this coast early; hevva cake; stargazy pie at Mousehole; PILCHARDS, salted and pressed and exported to Italy for centuries; crab and lobster; and Cornish clotted cream. Mining emigration carried the pasty to Michigan, Mexico, Australia and South Africa.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Cornish community documented

Languages: Cornish, English

What is recorded

  • The Cornish were recognised as a national minority under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in 2014, and Cornish is a revived Brittonic language related to Welsh and Breton rather than to English. Cornish foodways are recorded as a distinct system within English geography, not as generic West Country food. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • migrated to American documented

    Mining emigration carried the pasty to Michigan, Mexico, Australia and South Africa.

  • related to Welsh Foodways documented

    Cornish is a Brittonic language related to Welsh and Breton, not to English.

Recipes

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