Camborne pasty maker, 93, becomes Facebook sensation
A pasty making great, grandmother from Camborne has become the latest Facebook sensation.
Eunice Woolcock, 93, has had almost 3,000 "likes" on a Facebook page set up following her appearance on ITV's Food Glorious Food on Wednesday night.
The programme is looking for " a very special dish", with the winning cook getting £20,000 and seeing their dish on the shelves of Marks and Spencer stores.
Mrs Woolcock was invited to take part in the show after a researcher travelled to her home two years ago and was smitten with her homemade pasty.
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Mrs Woolcock responded to an advert in a local newspaper for "someone passionate about Cornish pasties".
She said: "I enter a lot of competitions locally so I rang the number."
When she discovered that it might mean a trip to London, Mrs Woolcock lost interest, but the researcher, so impressed by her charm on the phone, said he would visit her.
One thing led to another, and before she knew it she had a full TV crew in her kitchen at Camborne filming her making pasties.
"And then I never heard anymore from them," said Mrs Woolcock, "until last August, when this lady rang and said we'd like you to come to Kingsbridge to make pasties.
"I said 'I'm 92, dear, I'm not going all the way up there."
But after a bit of deliberation, she decided to go and was driven to Devon by her grandson.
Visits to Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire and London followed, and Mrs Woolcock found she had made the final four out of 75 that started the competition.
Wednesday's TV appearance was the culmination of her journey when her pasty was judged by Tom Parker Bowles.
"He said he's never eaten such a lovely pasty in his life," said Mrs Woolcock.
3 Comments
by Janeliker
Friday, March 08 2013, 8:33PM
“Lovely lady, heard her interviewed by Lawrence Read today BUT does anyone else think this is what is called 'stealing someone's intellectual property' and possibly taking advantage of a very trusting, generous soul maybe rather touched and swayed by the interest into being used for others' very profitable ends? She is obviously more than okay with giving her time and great expertise for the good of all, and maybe enjoying the travel and attention to a degree, but many media types, with probably no real interest in the authenticity of a real Cornish pasty, are and probably will even more make a lot of money from her willingness to sign up for what was initially described as a 'competition'..but seems to have led inexorably to the door of one Simon Cowell and the land of mega-millions (for some). Just a thought...”
by josdave
Friday, March 08 2013, 2:09PM
“Fortunately I have better things to occupy my time with than wasting it on so-called social media.”
by PhilPZ
Friday, March 08 2013, 10:39AM
“She is a star! But what is she holding in her left hand in your picture? It's certainly not her pasty.”