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English from BBC, learning English. I'm Neil, and I'm Rob.

Fancy a game of food connections?

Rob So I'll name a place, and you say the 1st food that comes to mind.

Ready? Yeah? Sure. Let's go Italy.

Um,

a pizza? Or Lasania? New York?

Hotdogs, of course, or maybe bagels.

Now, hang about. Cornwall from the UK, right?

If it's Cornwall, it must be the famous Cornish pasty, right?

That's right. Cornwall, the region which forms the southwestern tip of Britain, is as famous for its pasties as New Yorkers for hot dogs.

In this program, we'll be finding out all about Cornish pasties, and we'll hear how it's gone from humble beginnings to become a symbol of Cornish identity and spread around the world to Jamaica, argentina and Brazil.

Hmm. But what exactly is a pasty meal, somewhere between a pie and a sandwich, right?

A piece of pastry which is turned over and crimped along the side to make two corners and filled with different ingredients.

Which brings me to my quiz question for today.

Rob What is the traditional filling in an authentic cornish pasty?

Is it a chicken, avocado and bree b, beef, potato, and turn it, or sea pork onion?

And thereso? Well, thereso is spanish, isn't it?

And avocado we breathe doesn't sound traditionally cornish, so I'll say, b beef, potato and turnip.

OK, rob, we'll find out later if you were right.

What's for sure is that the cornish pasty has had a long history as a BBC radio falls the Food program discovered they spoke to Doctor Polly Russell, a public life curator at the British and Library.

Here she is reading from one of the earliest mentions of pasties from the late 17th century.

There's a lovely bit here where he's describing what a housewife in hotfordser does, and he talking about her way to make pork pies.

And pork pasties. Pies may be made and baked either raised in paste earthen pans or imputed dishes, or in the shape of a turnover two cornered pasties.

So that's a very early reference to a past in the shape, I think, that we know it, but also being made specifically for laborers to be feeding laborers on a farm at harvest time.

So the earliest pastes were made in pewter dishes, a traditional cooking plate made of a silver colored metal called pewter, and they were eaten by agricultural laborers, workers doing physical farm work during harvest time, the weeks in autumn when crops like wheat are cut and collected from the fields.

But it wasn't only farmers and laborers who ate pasties as well as its farms and fishing.

Cornel was famous for tin mines.

As Ruth Huxley of the Cornish past The Association explains, pasties would have been eaten by lots of people who went to work, but it just worked perfectly down mines, and Cornwell became the world capital of mining.

And so lots of pasties were made, lots of fasties were eaten.

And then that that mining community went all over the world and and took the capacity with them.

Pasties were eaten by hungry workers involved in the mining industry, digging up materials such as coal or metals like gold, or in cornwall, ten from the ground.

Hmm. So far we've been talking about cornwall, but you said the cornish pasty has spread around the world meal.

How did that happen? Well, that's connected to the tin miners we just talked about.

Here's Polly Russell again. This is replicated, not just in Mexico, but, you know, with migrants moving to America, to Minnesota, to Canada, to Australia, to anyone who travels to many of those places, now, we'll see foods which are incredibly reminiscent and familiar.

And just like cornish pasties in the 19th century, many Cornish tin miners emigrated, moving abroad to start a better life.

Their pasty recipes were replicated or copied exactly in the new places where they landed, from America to Australia.

And that's why in many places around the world, you can find food which is reminiscent of pasties, meaning it reminds you of something similar, in this case, the original cornish capacity, with its traditional feeling of What was your quiz question again?

Neil Ah Yes. I asked you what the traditional college pasty filling was.

You said, I said, b beef potato and turn it.

And you were right. Kess Loino.

Rob that's cornish for congratulations. Head grave.

Neal that's no problem. In fact, those other feelings, cherie.

So avocado and bri really did feature in past.

These entered for this year's annual World Pasty Championships, held in Cornwall every spring.

Other pasty inspired ideas include Argentinian chimmy churry and bananas and spicy Jamaican patties.

So the pasty is still going strong, both in Cornwall and around the world.

Today, we've been discussing cornish pasties, a kind of filled pastry from the southwest of England.

Originally made imputer dishes as a silver

colored metal dish, pasties were eaten by agricultural laborers, farm workers bringing in the autumn harvest, the time when crops are cut and collected from the fields, and also by workers in the tin mining industry, digging up metals like tin from underground.

Later, when these miners emigrate into new lands, pasties were replicated, cooked again in the same way.

In fact, college miners moved to so many new countries that today, almost every corner of the world has food reminiscent of or reminding you of, the original cornish pasty.

That's all for today. Join us again soon for more topical discussion and vocabulary on six minute English.

Bye for now. Bye, bye.

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