Isabel Arriaga Lozano carefully fills a small pastry with a savoury mix of meat, potatoes and chilli pepper. She is crafting a paste (pronounced PAH-stay), a beloved Mexican snack with a rich history.

Though their fillings may be a little spicier, the resemblance between the Mexican “paste” and traditional Cornish pasty is uncanny. The story of the somewhat unlikely legacy of the English snack ...

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Note:New York chef and cookbook author Zarela Martinez contributed this recipe for her October cover story on spice rubs. It was, she wrote, the first spice paste dish she ever learned to make. This ...