Orwashers Bakery
Orwashers Bakery | |
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Restaurant information | |
City | New York City |
State | New York |
Country | United States |
Orwashers Bakery is a famous
History
An Eastern European immigrant himself, Abraham Orwasher opened the store in 1916, and lived in a small apartment in the back. Orwasher "used family recipes for the high-quality rye, black, and grain breads of their homeland, baking them all in a basement brick oven and delivering the loaves by horse and carriage."[2] It soon became a thriving wholesale business with deliveries being made by horse and buggy. Abraham's son Louis would go on to take over the business from his father, owning the building the bakery was housed in. Louis would go on to perfect the formulas of his father, while reinventing the breads sold. It is claimed that it was Louis who invented raisin pumpernickel bread, at Orwasher's during World War II.
Abram Orwasher, Louis's son, later took over the business, using the same brick ovens and
In 2007, Mr. Orwasher sold the bakery to Keith Cohen, who stated plans to expand the bakery's offerings beyond Eastern European breads, adding artisanal breads from Italy, France, Ireland and the United States.[3]
Starting in 2009, Keith Cohen launched a new line of Artisan Wine Breads under the brand name Oven Artisans. These breads were created with a wine grape starter in collaboration with Channing Daughters Vineyard in Long Island.[4]
References
- ^ America's Top Ten Bakeries Archived copy, Epicurious, accessed August 10, 2006
- ^ "102-year-old Orwasher's Bakery is preserving NYC nostalgia while adapting to the times". 6sqft. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- New York Times, accessed November 27, 2007
- ISBN 978-1937994426.
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