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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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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Food It’s official: Expert says best bagel is whatever you grew up with
I ate a bagel for breakfast this morning. It was a St. Viateur bagel from Montreal, shipped to the supermarket in Toronto, sliced, frozen, and toasted, then shmeared liberally with Western Dairy cream cheese. I split it with my son. It was perfect. At least for me. Since that most glorious day in Jewish history,…
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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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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 Montreal’s St-Viateur Rolls Out Bagel Truck
Montreal’s St-Viateur Bagel has come a long way since Buchenwald survivor Myer Lewkowicz opened his humble storefront bakery in a rundown immigrant neighborhood in 1957. Under the Morena family, its owners since 1994, St-Viateur has ballooned to six retail outlets, a thriving wholesale operation, and a fast-growing delivery business to rabid bagel fans in the…
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Food Battle of the Bagels — Montreal
It may be hard to believe that for some bagel lovers, New York bagels are not the be all and end all. Not everyone may know it, but Montreal is a big bagel town, too. And now some U.S. cities — New York, included — are serving Montreal bagels on their turf. “My folks are…
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