Modern Forage: Mountain (rural, non-MSA)
Cornish miners brought the pasty to Globe-Miami (Gila County) and Bisbee (Cochise County) Arizona copper-mining towns in the 1870s onward. Joe's Broad Street Grill in Globe sells traditional pasties every Thursday; Methodist and Pentecostal churches hold annual pasty fundraisers; Gila County Historical Museum displays 'pasty buckets' (sectioned lunch pails). Cornish Pasty Company (Tempe flagship) extended the form into a 7+ location Phoenix-Las Vegas chain.
The rural Mountain census division (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming outside any MSA) anchors several dishes; this post starts with the Cornish Pasty tradition Globe-Miami and Bisbee inherited from copper-mining-town immigration in the 1870s.
This list is almost certainly incomplete; the rural Mountain West holds further hyper-local dishes that have not yet surfaced in the survey.
A note on the Where-to-eat blocks. Every entry below carries a list of restaurants and, where available, star ratings as of the date this post was published. These are a snapshot. Verify hours and addresses before driving anywhere.
Globe-Miami and Bisbee Cornish Pasties — Arizona
Pattern: Mining Corridors.
Cornish miners brought the pasty to copper-mining Arizona in the 1870s onward. Joe’s Broad Street Grill in Globe sells traditional pasties every Thursday at 10:30 AM until they run out. Methodist and Pentecostal churches hold annual pasty-sale fundraisers. “Pasty buckets” (sectioned lunch pails) are on display at the Gila County Historical Museum. In Bisbee, Gene’s Place serves traditional Cornish pasties (beef, potato, onion, rutabaga, hand-crimped crust). Cornish and Finnish miners were among the largest immigrant groups. The Cornish Pasty Company gastropub chain (Tempe flagship, Scottsdale, Phoenix, Las Vegas; founded 2005) has 7+ locations across AZ and NV serving 30+ pasty varieties from traditional “Oggie” to lamb vindaloo.
Sources: Edible Phoenix (2025, Arizona mining-town pasties with Globe/Bisbee details); Globe Miami Times (2018, Cornish miners in AZ); Wikipedia. Three+ sources.
Where to eat: Joe’s Broad Street Grill, Globe (Thursday 10:30am pasty drop until they run out). Gene’s Place, Bisbee (canonical Bisbee Cornish pasties). Cornish Pasty Company, Tempe (gastropub flagship; multiple AZ and NV locations). Methodist and Pentecostal church pasty-sale fundraisers in Globe-Miami.
More from the series
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Research & primary sources
Methodology, validation logs, and the entries that didn’t make this post are in the modern_forage/ on GitHub. Every entry here passed a 2+ independent-source check; the citations under each dish list them.