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Fast Forward Portland Bagel Shop Destroyed by Massive Gas Blast — 8 Hurt
Three firefighters, three civilians and two police officers were injured on Wednesday after a natural gas leak caused a pair of explosions at a bagel shop in Portland, Oregon, Portland Fire & Rescue said. The blasts obliterated the Portland Bagelworks restaurant, triggering a four-alarm fire that sent a large plume of black smoke into the…
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News How a Bagel Explains Super-Confusing Theory That Helped Jewish Physicist Win Nobel Prize
How does a bagel explain the physics theory that helped a British Jewish professor win a share of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics? More than you might think. Michael Kosterlitz, who is Jewish, shared the prestigious prize with colleagues David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for revealing unusual states of matter, leading to advances in…
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Food With Fletchers, Montreal’s Bagel Scene Gets Bigger and Better
Two weeks ago, my family and I spent a week in the Laurentian mountains, an hour north of Montreal. We were there for a week-long Jewish music and culture festival called KlezKanada, which has become one of our favorite annual excursions. (Brisk dips in a gorgeous lake, the convergence of the world’s most renowned klezmer…
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Recipes Everything Bagel Butter
Makes 12 to 16 ounces butter (plus 2 cups buttermilk) For the Everything Bagel Seasoning 3 tablespoons dried minced onion 2 tablespoons white sesame seeds 1 tablespoon black sesame seeds 1 tablespoon poppy seeds 1 tablespoon onion powder 1½ teaspoons kosher salt For the butter 1 quart heavy cream 1) To make the everything bagel…
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Food Kosher ‘Shrimp’ — and More Hot Dish
Coming soon to a kosher restaurant near you: shrimp. The U.K. Daily Mail reports that a San Francisco outfit called New Wave Foods has grown fake shrimp in a lab using red algae — which the crustaceans feed on — and baking it with a plant-based protein powder. Its very realness may become a problem….
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Food Baking a Perfect Bagel In Utah
(JTA) – When Robb Abrams first moved to this mountain city from the New York area six years ago, he loved the idea of living in an outdoorsman’s paradise. But there was one thing in particular he found very troubling: He couldn’t find a decent bagel anywhere. What began as a casual hunt quickly turned…
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Culture Could You Eat More Bagels Than This Guy?
Inside an airy office above a strip of retail stores in downtown Huntington, New York, the first annual National Bagel Eating Contest made its debut on the first Sunday in February. The competition drew seven male contestants who were hungry to win the championship title and $500. Starting at 9 a.m., friends, family and several…
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Recipes Valentine’s Day Breakfast In Bed, With a Jewish Twist
I’ll admit it: I have never been served breakfast in bed. My husband has cooked breakfast for me while I’m still in bed (pretending to still be asleep so I don’t spoil his surprise — honestly, who can stay sleeping with the smell of coffee and pancakes wafting into the room?). But as someone prone…
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