New bakery in Swarthmore plans use Solar energy

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City Bakery's Cousin to Come to Swarthmore

December 05, 2007

Sue Pascoe , Staff Writer

Palisadians, rev up your appetites because a new bakery and eatery, Birdbath, is opening on Swarthmore in early next year.

Maury Rubin, who owns the City Bakery in New York City and in Brentwood, is coming to Pacific Palisades with many of his signature offerings such as Rubin's chocolate (hot or cold), pretzel croissants, 'Save the Polar Bear Claws' (a type of turnover with apricot jam) and his 'What's Your Carbon Footprint?' cookie (an organic butter cookie).

'I love this street,' Rubin said Tuesday at his storefront at 1017 Swarthmore (between Solis Salon and Paliskates). 'I love that it is the Farmers' Market street.'

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Rubin plans to use construction materials within a 500-mile radius of the Palisades and food products obtained from California.

Equally important, Rubin wants to use solar energy to run the bakery. If successful, it will be one of the first solar commercial bakeries in the nation. He was complimentary of his landlords, Paul and Vickie Bowinkel. 'They have embraced this idea and we couldn't do it without their willingness,' he said.

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1. I'd gladly patronize them, but the bread would get stale in transit.....