From Battleships to Butter Churns: The Unlikely Home of Philly’s Best Amish Kitchen
PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Philadelphia Navy Yard is famous for its towering naval ships, sleek corporate headquarters, and sprawling brick warehouses. It is an epicenter of industrial history and modern business. It is probably the last place on earth you would expect to hear the gentle hum of a butter churn or smell the sweet, earthy aroma of rising sourdough and molasses.
But tucked inside a retrofitted, 19th-century shipbuilding warehouse, The Iron & Oak Dutch Kitchen has officially opened its massive steel doors, bringing the slow, methodical magic of Lancaster County cooking directly to the heart of Philly’s industrial shipyard…