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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 […]
Cornwall’s Top Crimpers take to the stage
To coincide with the start of Cornish Pasty Week, the cream of Cornwall’s professional crimpers gathered on Monday 24th February at Heartlands in Pool, to battle it out for a place in the finals of the World’s Fastest Crimper competition. Cornish pasty producers pitted their fastest crimpers against the clock to see who could crimp […]
Let’s hear it for Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
The pasty and mining have always been entwined in Cornish history – the ultimate robust, filling and transportable meal for hard working, hard rock miners. Both have their traditions and folklore; was there a sweet and a savoury end? Did the miners hold the crimp with their dirty, dusty, hands and then discard it – […]
Calling pastymakers across the globe…
The grand finale and the undeniable highlight of Cornish Pasty Week is the World Pasty Championships at the Eden Project. Welcoming amateurs, professionals, companies and juniors from all over the globe, there are Open categories, where the only limit to the filling is your own imagination. But for entries to any of the Cornish […]
Cornish Pasty Week – get your crimp on!
Cornish Pasty Week returns for its third year with another week-long celebration dedicated to one of the world’s favourite foods, running from Sunday 23rd February to Saturday 29th February. After its debut last year, the quest to find the world’s fastest crimper continues. Open only to crimpers from bakeries producing genuine, certified, Cornish pasties, this […]
Top of the table for Cornish pasties
New research has found that Cornish pasties are the nation’s most widely recognised Geographic Indication (GI) product. The project, undertaken by the international organisation Brand Dialogue, found that over 87% of people surveyed across the UK were familiar with Cornish pasties and that more than half were also aware that they are protected by the […]
World Pasty Championships 2019 – what a day!
Cornish Pasty Week ended in style yesterday with the Eden Project’s World Pasty Championships proving every bit why it’s billed as the grand finale to our week of celebration. The place was abuzz from the off with pastymakers of all ages and from near and far lining up to enter their pasties into the competition. […]
In a new initiative as part of Cornish Pasty Week our members have come together to show their appreciation for some of Cornwall’scrucial emergency and rescue services. Across the week, the lovable life-size characters, Mr and Mrs Pasty, have travelled from Land’s End to the Tamar, spreading the word about Cornish Pasty Week and also […]
Four Crimping Finalists Announced
The quest to find the World’s Fastest Crimper has taken a step forward with the selection of four finalists from a strong field of twelve. Certified bakers of genuine Cornish pasties can put forward a maximum of two crimpers for the competition, which is a new feature within Cornish Pasty Week this year. In the […]
Mr and Mrs Pasty Hanging Around for Cornish Pasty Week
Mr and Mrs Pasty have been warming up for their Grand Tour of Cornwall by whizzing at 60 miles an hour down SkyWire, England’s longest and fastest zipline run by Hangloose Adventure at the Eden Project near St Austell. Their adventures will continue throughout Cornish Pasty Week (February 24 to March 2) when they will be […]
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