Mexican Town Celebrates 200 Years of Cornish Pasties

Real del Monte honors its unique culinary link to Cornwall with an annual festival celebrating the 'paste.'

• The 'paste,' a Mexican adaptation of the Cornish pasty, was introduced by British miners in the 1820s.
• Real del Monte, a historic mining town in Mexico, hosts an International Paste Festival each October.
• The pasty was brought to Mexico by miners from Cornwall, England, seeking silver and gold in 1824.
• Mexican 'pastes' feature local flavors, with fillings like spicy mole and chili-infused tuna.
• The town's rich pasty history is preserved in the Museo del Paste, the world's first Cornish pasty museum.

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