How Cornish Pasties Got to California
Grass Valley’s Cornish pasties are a remnant of the town’s mining history
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Web Only May 6, 2021 By Jennifer Fergesen
On the counter of Marshall’s
Pasties in Grass Valley, next to a few of the awards the
53-year-old shop has accumulated, there’s a blackened metal lunch
pail. It doesn’t look like much against the stacks of plaques and
framed certificates, but the pail is a direct connection to the
mines that once powered this gold rush town.
Marshall’s Pasties has an antique miner’s lunch pail on display.
(Photo courtesy of Marshall’s Pasties)