To find the best bagel in NYC (and hence, obviously, the world).
Riding scooters, toting helmets and pushing strollers, we will venture out into the great city of New York to bravely taste every variety of bagel.
Following each weekend bagel adventure, we will post the results of our taste-test on this blog.
While bagel tasting may seem a tad inferior to, say, wine tasting, we believe this is but an accident of history. The preconditions are in place for the revolution of bagel connoisseurism:
- Bagels, like wine, can be described by an ever-expanding list of adjectives: Doughy, chewy, dense, light, toasted, fluffy, bready, hand-rolled, crunchy, stale (to name but a few). As we taste the wealth of bagels New York City has to offer, we plan to add to this list, and hope you will support us in this effort.
- Similar to wine drinking, eating bagels makes one want to eat even more bagels. Bagel-addiction is a serious risk.
- Like wine, bagels pack a ton of calories: about 300, to be exact. (I have to confess when I first googled this it gave me serious pause; was I sure about consuming this many calories in the form of a bagel each week? I decided the quest must stand ahead of my personal health. Some things are simply too important.)
- Unlike wine, even the best bagels are amazingly inexpensive.
We hope you’re convinced that bagel tasting is about to become the next big thing, and that identifying the world’s best bagel is a worthwhile cause. Please consider supporting us by contributing your impressions of bagels you’ve sampled in New York or anywhere else in the world.
May the best bagel win.
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