PrintNo Real Bagels In The Bay Area?
Shuna Fish Lydon, on Jewish Comfort Food: "It is my ultimate opinion that there are no real bagels in the Bay Area. I have tried and retried them all. I've been cajoled by hopeful and starry eyed non-Jews as well as other deperate New York Jews. Nope, they do not exist here. Just because bread is round does not mean it's a bagel. When a bagel is a bagel, every gram of your being knows it. It's taste and texture, the smell of your grandmother's kitchen. It's whipped butter, freshly sliced red onions, and too much cream cheese."
(A friend of mine who grew up in the Bay Area but lives in Brooklyn brings a sack of bagels home for his parents every time he flies home, per their standing request. They're not Jewish either, they just really like New York bagels!)
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4 Comments:
I am convinced that this is because of NYC water. Ain't no other water like it.
misssbhavens at 12:50PM on 02/13/07
They are just not chewy! Everybody steams around here. What I wouldn't give for an Essa Bagel right now...
SaraP at 2:41PM on 02/13/07
When I was in school, Izzy's Brooklyn Bagels in Palo Alto, CA always treated me right, and I was under the impression that they were true to New York. Huh.
kathryn at 4:12PM on 02/13/07
Manhattan Bagel comes closest in my mind. Both bagel and pizza on this coast suffer from the "chewy issue", but I have come to find both that satisfy. Just takes some patience and persistence. Plus, each time I go home to NY, I'm stunned at the corner deli Bagel dreck my NY friends will ingest.
dana at 12:29AM on 02/14/07