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Food The 4 Best Bagels in Oakland
Avocados and burritos be warned: bagels (yes, bagels) are hitting Oakland by storm. In just the past two years, Oakland has seen four independent bagelries open their doors, to much success. And demand is only growing (these are the people, may I remind you, who waited for hours in the balmy rain this past March…
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Food Roundup: The Year of Hummus and Bagels Continues
Bagels at Black Seed. Credit: Devra Ferst As we predicted around Hanukkah last year, 2014 is indeed the year of the bagel and hummus. This week, the web’s filled with bagel recommendations and a savory hummus bread pudding recipe — oh, and the trade secrets to Katz’s pastrami. Where to get your lox on: The…
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Food Ottolenghi’s Favorite Cookbooks, The Perfect Bagel
We LOVE Yotam Ottolenghi (and hope you do too). He dishes on his favorite cookbooks. [Serious Eats] What makes a perfect bagel? Mary Ting Hyatt tries to answer the unanswerable. [The Kitchn] If that made you hungry, here’s where to get 10 of the best bagels in New York. [Village Voice] How to Throw the…
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Food Baz Bagels Makes Its Debut
New York is having an appetizing moment. Black Seed, Noah Bernamoff’s artisan-bagel emporium, opened last month in Nolita; Russ & Daughters’ long-awaited Lower East Side café finally made its debut today. And down the street, a pair of newcomers are throwing their hats in the bagel ring with an honest-to-God appetizing shop, bagel bar, and…
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Food The Great Bagel Peace Treaty of 2014
Bagels fresh from the oven at Black Seed Bagels in New York City. It’s impossible to deny: The New York City bagel has gone downhill. The once small, chewy and crisp bagels have been transformed into bloated overly airy and stale versions of their former selves. While several young cooks took up the call to…
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Food Desperately Seeking a New York Bagel in London
The now sadly shuttered H&H Bagels. Credit: Wikicommons There are many things I can live without — New York bagels is not one of them. They are my desert island food. I’m a sixth generation New Yorker who moved to London in 1996. My plan was to stay three years. One man and a few…
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Food How To Make a New York Bagel — Outside of New York
Seanan Forbes missed New York City bagels so desperately that she spent weeks and pounds of flour developing a recipe to sate her craving. Read her story here. For the dough 2 teaspoons yeast 1 tablespoon light brown sugar (or honey, agave nectar, maple syrup, malt syrup) 1½ teaspoons sea salt 1½ cups warm water…
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Food Is a Day-Old Bagel Really the Best San Francisco Can Do?
Photos courtesy of Meesha Halm You can take the New Yorker out of New York, but evidently, you can’t take the kvetching out of a New Yorker. Big Apple transplants have long lamented that you can’t get a good bagel in the Bay Area (or a decent slice of pizza for that matter). While San…
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