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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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World Pasty Championships Round-up

Cornish Pasty Week came to a close on Saturday 29th February with an eclectic mix of pasties and music headlined by Celtic folk-punk giants Black Friday topping the bill at the World Pasty Championships held at the Eden Project. Nearly 200 pasties, including entries from the USA and Canada, were evaluated by a team of […]

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FOUND! The World’s Fastest Crimper 2020

This year’s search for the World’s Fastest Crimper came to a nail-biting finish on Saturday when each of the four finalists, selected from heats run earlier in Cornish Pasty Week, went through their own two minutes under the spotlight at the Eden Project as they competed to find the 2020 champion.   With nerves at […]

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