BagelFest is an annual competition of bagel baking. The Wall Street Journal reports that 2,000 competitors converged at Citi Field in New York City to see which bakery produced the best example of this iconic bread of New Yorker cuisine.
A Texan bakery won, of course.
Starship Bagel is a small chain of bagel-centered restaurants in the Dallas area. The bagel pictured above is dubbed the Millennium Falcon. It has tomato, avocado, alfalfa sprouts, pickled red onions, red pepper, and your choice of schmear.
The WSJ article examines in depth how a bagel can be defined and how that definition has changed over time. There is a great deal of innovation in bagel development in recent years, of which the Millennium Falcon is only one example.
-via Instapundit | Photo: Starship Bagel
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