The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread by Maria Balinska Sale Books It is a must-read for

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The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread by Maria Balinska Sale Books It is a must-read forCultural history from a culinary prospective. If smoked salmon and cream cheese bring only one thing to mind, you can count yourself among the worlds millions of bagel mavens. But few people are aware of the bagels provenance, let alone its adventuresome history. This charming book tells the remarkable story of the bagels journey from the tables of seventeenth century Poland to the freezers of middle America today, a story of often surprising