Orwasher's Bakery
Orwashers Bakery is a famous breadmaking business in New York City that has been listed among the top ten bakery, bakeries in United States, America. Also known as A. Orwasher Handmade Bread Inc. it was established in 1916 on 78th Street (Manhattan), 78th Street in the Yorkville, Manhattan, Yorkville area of the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan and it is now one of the last vestiges of the thriving immigrant population that lived in that area around the start of the 20th century. 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." 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 h ...
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