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Volunteer Day at Great Kids Farm

Atwater’s staff volunteered at Great Kids Farm in Catonsville today. Great Kids Farm “provides opportunities for Baltimore City Public School students to understand and participate in every aspect of food preparation – from seed to fork – and prepares them to lead 21st century sustainability efforts.” The farm has very [...]

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A Naturally Leavened Makeover

If you’ve stopped by our Catonsville bakery more than once, you know we like change.  Where is the coffee station?  Oh, it moved… again.  We’re constantly rearranging and reorganizing to fit all of our BIG ideas into a tiny storefront. Let’s take a look at a few of the changes [...]

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Easter Treats

Easter is right around the corner, and Atwater’s will have cute treats to fill your baskets and tables. To start, we’ll have Hot Cross Buns. Hot Cross Buns are a traditional Good Friday treat, with interesting folklore. For kids and adults alike, there are iced shortbread cookies in Easter Egg [...]

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Atwater’s Partners with Great Kids Farm

Each year, Atwater’s donates products and services to positively impact the neighborhoods where we live and work.  We recognize that there are many causes to support and believe we can make the greatest contribution by focusing our resources, particularly towards organizations serving youth and food education.  For 2012, Atwater’s will [...]

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Hot Cross Buns

Hot Cross Buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday and many superstitions surround this sweet yeast-leavened treat. The cross, made from icing or scored before baking, is thought to be a symbol of the Crucifixion.  Others believe the cross symbolizes the four quarters of the moon and were eaten by [...]

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Passover Menu

Save yourself time this year by pre-ordering your Passover essentials with us. Make Passover a wholesome feast with our naturally delicious foods. Our Passover Menu features soups, sides, and desserts, all made by hand from scratch. Chicken Matzoh Ball Soup, Vegetarian Tzimmes, Vegetarian Matzoh Lasagna, Apple & Matzoh Stuffing, Spiced [...]

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Atwater’s Chicken Salad

Our most popular sandwich.  Find out why… Legend has it that chicken salad, as we know it, was first created at “Town Meats” in Wakefield, RI in 1863 and instantly became a hit…we introduced Atwater’s Chicken Salad in 2004. We start with certified organic free-range chickens from Eberly Poultry, located [...]

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The Buzz on Caffeine

We’re proud to brew Counter Culture Coffee and offer a fine selection of teas for all your caffeine (or decaffeinated) needs. And our baristas?  They’re trained by world-class coffee educators at Counter Culture’s Washington DC espresso laboratory.  Oh yeah, we take our beans seriously.   So, what makes our coffee [...]

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Think Outside the Bottle

As of January 2011, we’ve pledged to stop selling bottled water. Why?  Let us count the ways: To Reduce Waste We used to sell over 200 bottles of water per week That’s 29 bottles/day or 10,430 bottles/year 77% of these were not recycled and sit in a landfill… FOREVER To [...]

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Beautiful & Local – Beaumont Pottery

Ever wonder where we get our beautiful coffee mugs, soup bowls, and plates? They’re local and handmade… just the way we like.  Beaumont Pottery, located in Phoenix Maryland supplies our dishes for service and retail sale too! Right now Jerry and Janet Beaumont are working on 100 dinner plates for [...]

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