Cornish Beef Pasty

Michigan is a big state with several distinct cultural areas. The Upper Peninsula, five hours north of Ann Arbor by car, known to Michiganders as the UP (its residents are “Yoopers”), is a beautiful, primarily rural and remote area. Its long winters make agriculture not very productive, so the economy is based on logging, and in the past it was a big mining area.

Many European immigrants populated the UP to work in the mines in the early 19th century, Cornish miners being one of the