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Yiddish World VIDEO: Make these bagels yourself and you won’t even miss the cream cheese!
There may be a cream cheese shortage but by making these delicious bagels yourself, you won’t even miss the cheese.
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Fast Forward Something sinister compounded the cream cheese shortage: a cyberattack
The cream-cheese crisis that has deprived bagel eaters and cheesecake bakers during the past week was quickly chalked up to supply-chain issues that have dogged manufacturers across industries. Turns out a cyberattack is also partly to blame for the schmear shortage. One of the country’s largest producers of cream cheese, Schreiber Foods of Wisconsin, was…
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Culture No cream cheese? No problem. A dozen alternate bagel toppings.
We’re sure you’ve heard by now. First it was toilet paper. Then coins. At last, the supply chain’s woes have hit us squarely in the Jewish soul: there’s a cream cheese shortage in New York. While various reports have it that some bagel places are still schmearing enough Philadelphia to top a sugar cone, many…
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Culture Why attending the Brookyn Bagelfest made us hate bagels
Immediately upon walking into the Brooklyn Bagelfest, you passed a photo booth featuring a kiddie pool filled with real bagels. A steady stream of eager Instagrammers stepped into the pool to take pictures with oversized inflatable props, like fried eggs, bacon and palm trees — bagels are, after all, traditionally a tropical food. “These Bagels…
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Food East Coast v. West Coast Bagels, so which are better?
In the scheme of things —Afghanistan, global warming, the Delta variant— the “Great Bagel Off” may not ask the most urgent question, and yet 2,500 people signed up to hear the answer. That’s right: 2,500. Not to actually eat bagels. Just to watch other people eat them, and decide: Which coast does have the best…
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Culture The New York Bagel Experience is not for hipsters
As recent transplants to this fair city of New York, we have plenty to learn about bagels. We haven’t had a chance to develop brand loyalties and identify establishments we love — or simply refuse to patronize. We don’t have firm feelings about the Montreal bagel. We can’t yet bring ourselves to speak unironically of…
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Fast Forward How learning Yiddish can get you a free bagel next Tuesday
If you weren’t already interested in learning Yiddish, Duolingo may have given you another reason, — free bagels! That’s right, in honor of the launch of a new Yiddish course on the popular language-learning platform, Duolingo is offering to pay for your bagel order at a handful of stores around the country when the course…
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Food Kaddish for Knishes? Post-pandemic, Jewish delis face an uncertain future
“Once this whole thing is over,” my father declared, early in January, “one of the first places we have to go is to Sammy’s!” He was speaking, of course, about Sammy’s Roumanian Steakhouse, the legendary restaurant on New York’s Lower East Side known for its chopped liver, garlicky karnatzel and blackened skirt steaks, leaden latkes,…
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