Pronounced PAH-stay, this pastry snack was introduced to the mining town of Real del Monte by British miners in the 1820s, and is still going strong today – albeit adapted for local palates.

For more than eight decades ending in December 1999, workers made their way to the 800 block of Auzerais Avenue near downtown San Jose to make their living at Del Monte Cannery No. 3. That commute ...

The silver mines surrounding Real del Monte were the source of more than half the silver produced during the 300 years that Spain rule Mexico (1521–1821).

The Cornish pasty is big in Mexico and an old graveyard holds the clue to why Hundreds of miners travelled to Mexico in 1824 to work in Real del Monte, extracting silver, copper, zinc, gold and ...