How Cornish Pasties Got to California
Grass Valley’s Cornish pasties are a remnant of the town’s mining history
Back 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)