Q&A with Ben Otterbein (Otterbein’s Cookies)

Ben Otterbein, vice president of Otterbein’s Cookies. Otterbein’s Bakery, the family-owned business established in 1881. Otterbein’s Cookies is celebrating its 140th year in business this year and remains a Baltimore staple.

About Otterbein’s Cookies

A family of German immigrants would come to Baltimore, Maryland and start a little bakery near Fort McHenry (Oh say, can you see!), where Adam Otterbein would create a crispy, buttery sugar cookie that an entire city would fall in love with. For Otterbein’s Cookies, it’s simple baking. simple pleasures. And they wouldn’t want it any other way.

PHOTO BY ERIC STOCKLIN; ILLUSTRATION BY SARAH PRICE

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