Talk:Bagel

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 Definition:  A specialty bread roll, most associated with Jewish-American cuisine, formed in a circle around a central hole; boiled and then baked [d] [e]
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Perlman's Bagel Factory

In the early fifties, the father of one of my best friends, in Newark, New Jersey, owned a bagel factory -- no, it wasn't called a bagel bakery, for unexplainable reasons. Since they usually had a shiny hard crust, they tended to be incredibly hot and rather dangerous, but amazingly good if buttered as soon as they could be handled without severe burns.

Nevertheless, I have to consider the proliferation of bagel styles as far more a violation of American traditional values than things in current political discourse.

If one does not ask for an "American bagel" in Israel, one will get a different Eastern European roll called a bialy. The fact that American bagels are not assimilated there tends to reject one of the theories about the Israeli nuclear program: nuclear weapons would be needed to crack stale bagels.

I'll dig up my professional baker's textbook for more details of preparation. Howard C. Berkowitz 18:31, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

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