NYT covers Great Pasty Debate

Carrots or rutabagas? To gravy or not to gravy? These are questions you may not expect to see in the pages of the New York Times, but think again, in this charming travel food piece.

Excerpt: From the mid-1960s until my mother died in 2003, I visited Copper Harbor, a little town at the tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, nearly every summer.

If you’ve been to this part of the country, you know pasties — a sort of beef stew in a pastry shell that originated in Cornwall and came to the area with Cornish miners in the late 1800s.

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Source: New York Times