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Article: British Isles: A taste of Cornwall in a pastry pocket Simon Heptinstall ignores the imitations and goes in pursuit of the perfect pasty
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2001
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Old Mrs Trethewey turned the tiny hall of her tiny cottage into a
makeshift pasty shop every lunchtime. She would push a table across
her doorway and set up the tray of hot fresh pasties she'd baked that
morning. A steady stream of working men would drop by to be greeted
with a cheery "hello my lover", and disappear with a pasty in a white
paper bag until she'd sold them all.
As an outsider I felt proud to have discovered Mrs Trethewey's
homespun bakery in the back streets of St Austell. On my first visit
I half expected someone to shout: "Hey, you can't have one of they -
yoo'm not proper Cornish!", but as I became a trusted regular I felt
as if I'd passed some arcane initiation to ...