The Cornish pasty—not what you might think, but a thick pastry shell with a beef and vegetable filling—was created for Cornish tin miners centuries ago as a convenient fast-food item to carry down into the mines. However, a historian in neighboring Devon has uncovered a pasty recipe in the pages of a 16th-century book from Devon, which predates by two centuries the earliest record of pasties in Cornwall. The Cornish themselves have so far reacted with incredulity to the discovery, not least because the Cornish pasty is one of Cornwall’s most successful exports—a $115-million-per-year industry.
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