Bagels

Bagels are the only bread to be boiled and then baked, giving them their distinctive gloss. If you really love bagels you need to go to New York, and avoid those freezer bagels whose pursuit of gargantuan proportions has come at the expense of their hole.

Click on the bagel to vote for it as your favorite toroidal baked good.

Bagel Links

• House of Bagels
• Bagels For All
• History of Bagels

The dilemma over donuts and bagels stretches back to ancient Egypt. The hieroglyphic inscription above tells of a young pharaoh who offered both a bagel and a donut to his true love, in order to assure her happiness.