Cornish Foodways

Historical period

Cornish pasty, saffron cake, pilchards, crab, clotted cream and mining and fishing community food.

Atlas — where and when

What is recorded

  • The association of the pasty with Cornish mining communities is well attested; specific origin stories for the dish are contested and are not asserted here as fact. probable

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Welsh Foodways documented

    Cornish and Welsh are both Brittonic languages, and the mining emigration of both took their food to the same places.

Regional cuisines

Dishes

Recipes

No recipes are filed under this cuisine yet.