Among the many foods I wish were more common in America, pasties are high on the list. When I was growing up, my Croatian grandma and her sisters would often make pasties when we visited; these big pastries were filled with meat and potatoes, and I loved drowning mine in ketchup when I was small. On my first trip to England in 2011, I was delighted to discover that pasties are more common there – I bought a Cornish pasty from a window shop. I might have been one of the few kids reading Harry Potter to know what pasties are for these reasons – but I had never had pumpkin pasties…