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The Upper Peninsula has a distinctive local cuisine. The pasty (/ ˈ p æ s t iː / PASS-tee), a kind of meat turnover originally brought to the region by Cornish miners, is arguably the most famous food of the Upper Peninsula. Pasty restaurants and shops line highways across the peninsula.
Pasty. A pasty ( / ˈpæsti / [ 1]) or Cornish pasty is a British baked pastry, a variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, but has spread all over the British Isles, and elsewhere through the Cornish diaspora. [ 2][ 3] It consists of an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, baked in a folded and crimped shortcrust ...
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan —also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop —is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north, separated from the ...
SAULT STE. MARIE — Heidi Ritter and her husband moved to Sault Ste. Marie in 2020 and was shocked that she couldn't find a place to buy warm pasties in town, so she started her own pasty company ...
Pasties are associated with miners from Cornwall, England. When English miners immigrated to work the mines in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, northern Wisconsin and the Iron Range of Minnesota, they ...
Designated NHP. October 27, 1992. Keweenaw National Historical Park is a unit of the U.S. National Park Service. Established in 1992, the park celebrates the life and history of the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a federal-local cooperative park made up of two primary units, the Calumet Unit and ...
Seen highlighted in red, the region known as the Midwestern United States, as currently defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Ohio was one of the first Midwestern regions settled, mostly by farmers from the Thirteen Colonies, in 1788. Maize was the staple food, eaten at every meal. Ohio was abundant in fish, game, and wild fruits.
Calumet ( / ˌkæljuˈmɛt / KAL-yuu-MET or locally / ˌkæljəˈmɛt / KAL-yə-MET) is a village in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The village is located within Calumet Township, Houghton County, and had a population of 621 at the 2020 census . Calumet was once the center of Michigan's copper mining industry.