![]() ![]() “I was like, ‘There’s only one place to go-and it’s home.’ I want to be around people who forgive me for saying ‘Bawlmer. Meanwhile, Abuelhiga relocated her brand to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, not far from H&S. Sadly, in June, Abuelhiga shuttered her shop due to the pandemic, though Mason Dixie is one of the fastest-growing baked-goods companies in the U.S. Before long, Mason Dixie biscuits were stocked on store shelves, including all Whole Foods Markets nationally, as well as Wegman’s, Harris Teeter, and Mom’s Organics in the Baltimore area. In 2015, Whole Foods came calling for her all-natural products. “It took on a life of its own,” she says. Because she was selling out daily, Abuelhiga began preparing her biscuits ahead of time and freezing them. Over time, the business moved to a full-fledged brick-and-mortar location in the Shaw section of D.C. owner and operator of Grapevines Mason & Dixie - another local favorite. “I realized I could make them as a breakfast item and sop it up with gravy or do them with fried chicken,” she says.īy 2014, with $27,000 raised on Kickstarter, she opened Mason Dixie Biscuits Co. Get back to your roots at our downtown Grapevine restaurant on Main Street. So, when the 35-year-old entrepreneur thought about starting her own venture, a biscuit business seemed like a natural fit. “My mom hated the smell of lamb, my dad hated the smell of kimchi, so it was like, ‘Fried chicken, it is.’”Īt Thanksgiving it was biscuits, which Abuelhiga learned to make for her younger sisters. “We always ate American comfort food,” she says. “It was a melting pot.”ĭespite her heritage, the family ate Southern-inspired food. It felt like home,” says Abuelhiga, whose mom is Korean and dad, who passed away last year, was Palestinian-Israeli. “In college, I worked multiple jobs and always ended up being in restaurants. “He used to get traffic tickets because we liked standing up and putting our heads out the big windows just to smell the bread.”Īfter graduating from George Washington University, she worked corporate jobs, but wasn’t fulfilled. “We’d drive down Fleet in my Dad’s old Grand Prix,” recalls Abuelhiga. ![]() As a young girl growing up in Baltimore public housing, Ayeshah Abuelhiga fondly recalls her dad taking her, along with her sisters, to the H&S Bakery Outlet store for 5-cent bread. ![]()
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