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In the 1980’s when my parents first bought their house, a Bagel Shop opened up right across the street from us and we found Bagel nirvana. The shop owners were two couples and I remember for the first few years, they were at the shop morning, noon and night, doing everything themselves, trying to make a go of their nascent business. To this day, I have not had a better bagel than Astoria’s Bagel Shop’s bagel; they offer my favorite, pumpernickel and the whole range starting with plain, poppy seed, sesame seed, cinnamon raisin, whole wheat, onion, salted and the everything bagel. That is quite the variety, wouldn’t you say.
I often wonder what happened to the two couples. After the first few years, I noticed that they themselves weren’t coming to the shop anymore, they had solid, dependable people looking after the shop and I was happy for them, after all of their hard work and long hours, I wanted them to enjoy their time of leisure and I hope that the shop has financed a wonderful retirement for them.
I’m excited because right before leaving my mother’s house this afternoon to come back home, I went into the Astoria Bagel Shop and ordered two everything bagels with lox spread and my pumpernickel bagel with lox spread as well. For those who may not be familiar with lox spread, it is smoked salmon minced and mixed into cream cheese, it’s really good. That is what I’m going to have for dinner. Hooray for me 😀
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Bagels are yummy! The lox spread sounds good, too. Mary Beth Oleksak’s son has a bagel shop in the Village in NYC. He puts the spreads he makes inside mini bagels!
That’s right, I found out about Mary Beth’s sons’ bagel shop from one of the members of the Historical Society. He is doing pretty well which is great. Bagels are an outstanding contribution to the culinary world in my humble opinion. 😀
This reminded me of my student days when we used to go for a bagel and cream cheese on a saturday night. Happy days 🙂
Bagels are a filling and relatively inexpensive treat. University days were definitely happy days for me as well, and filled with many bagels. 😀
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I may have to buy some soon… They are not really all that common in Scotland. When I was very young it was just my Jewish friends that had them. Do you know if that’s a traditional thing?
I looked it up and the bagel came from Poland in the 1600’s. When Polish Jews came to the States and settled in the Northeast especially in New York that is when bagels became synonymous with Jewish culinary culture. Variations of the bagel were in Europe prior to its blossoming in the States. Interesting history and good eats. 🙂
Thanks for that.
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