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There are few questions that have plagued human existence for centuries: What is the meaning of life? What happens to us after we die? How come baby animals are so darn cute? Then, there is maybe the most hotly debated question of them all: Does New York City tap water really make the city's bagels and pizza taste better? At times, emotion and bias have co-opted the question. But according to science, the answer is a definitive... yeah, kind of. While the city's water is certainly unique and has defining qualities, the impact it has on the actual taste...

08 Bread New York City Bagels NEW YORK CITY, United States of America Bagels are an iconic New York City food: boiled, then baked hand-shaped, round rolls with a hole in the middle. It is a small and dense bread with a malty flavor and a dark, shiny, and crunchy exterior which should snap when bitten into it. Originally, they were brought to the United States by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. There is a theory that bagels were popular in the Jewish community because the dough needs to rest for twelve hours before being baked, so it was convenient...

WEST ORANGE, New Jersey (WCBS) -- The owner of a bagel shop in West Orange, New Jersey thinks he's being unfairly targeted by the town's zoning department. Jarrett Seltzer, who opened Bagels by Jarrett in early 2020, claims he was cited twice for zoning infractions even though he's following the rules. "We switched to curbside, obviously because of COVID. And it was one of those things that just ended up working," said Seltzer. That curbside-only business model stuck. Customers still order online and their food is carried out to them. Seltzer keeps the shades down to lower his cooling bill...

A woman was booted from a popular New York City food market for refusing to put on a mask and calling a bagel shop worker a “-–- --- -—-,” according to shocking footage obtained by The Post on Tuesday. The anti-masker, who had four children in tow, was repeatedly asked to put on a face-covering at the Davidovich Bakery stand inside Essex Market on the Lower East Side, where she was trying to order bagels on Sunday morning. In videos shot by a bystander, a security guard can be heard telling the woman a bakery worker wasn’t going to serve...

You know, the Jewish American breakfast staple with a slice right down the middle, often topped with lox and cream cheese. Yum! But wait...what is...THIS: A style of slicing bagels as you would a loaf of bread — aka bread-sliced — has caused OUTRAGE among a lot of people this week. (Ok, so not real outrage, but, like, bread outrage.) The drama all started when Alek Krautmann, a St. Louis native and employee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, tweeted a photo Monday of a box of Panera bagels looking like they’d gone through a paper shredder. “Today I...

VIDEO The secret is to buy the Einstein Bros gift cards for a STEEP discount which you can find at GiftCardGranny.Com. I found a $25 gift card for just $12.50 or 50% off. Then join the Schmear Society to take advantage of their Monday Baker's Dozen sale when you can get 13 bagels for just $7. Using the gift card, it only cost me $3.50 out of pocket. Call ahead to your local Einstein Bros store because a few do not accept gift cards. Most of those that don't are located on college campuses, in hospitals, etc..

This will make you stop spreading the cream cheese and toss that bagel away. A study says the carbs in bagels can raise your risk for lung cancer. The University of Texas study says high glycemic diets raise the risk of lung cancer by 49 percent, even for people who never smoked. …

On a cold winter morning just before sunrise, snow is falling gently onto the sidewalk outside of Kossar's (367 Grand Street, 212-473-4810). Inside, the talk is all about bialys. "I can't tell you how much I missed this," says one man, taking a bite before heading back outside. "Butter. Yes please, lots of butter," a woman says as she places her order. "Oh, wow, I didn't realize there were so many kinds," says another man. Following a five month renovation, the revered Jewish bakery, in a neighborhood that has grown exponentially over the past 80 years, recently reopened with a...

It's a double treat today for two New York culinary staples -- not only is it National Bagel Day -- it's also National Pizza Day. So which one of these iconic New York City foods reigns supreme among locals? CBS2's Emily Smith took to the streets to find out. In honor of National Bagel Day, Smith stopped off at Bagel Boss -- one of the oldest bagel chains to open on Long Island. Benny LoPiccolo, of Bagel Boss in Roslyn Heights, says It costs about 30 cents to make it homemade, and they sell it for $1.25. According to LoPiccolo,...

The Japanese have added another to their list of bizarre cultural phenomena: bagelheads. "Bagelhead" is a form of extreme body modification that sees saline injected into the forehead causing swelling, after finally being pushed in the middle to form the shape of a bagel (see video below). The Daily Mail said the process takes two hours and the bagel remains indented on the forehead for nearly a day. The body eventually absorbs the saline and the forehead goes back to normal. One client of a Tokyo body modification clinic told the Sun after having a giant needle plunged into her...

A truck carrying bite-sized bagels accidentally dropped its load in the middle of SR-82 Monday night. The cardboard box holding the pastries broke open when it hit the pavement, leaving several thousand mini bagels all over the road near the intersection of Sunshine Boulevard. The Lee County Sheriff's Office asked the Lehigh Acres Fire Department to help clean up the mess. Officials we spoke to say no one was hurt and traffic was not affected by the bagels.

Have you noticed bagel shops tacking on a few more cents to your beloved pumpernickel and cream cheese? Blame Albany. Bagels – however you slice them – most likely haven't been subject to tax at your favorite neighborhood shop. But, desperate for cash, Albany began enforcing a little known clause in its sales tax code that calls for a tax on sliced bagels or whole bagels consumed at the place of purchase, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A Fairview police officer was on a breakfast run to a bagel shop on New Year's Day when his patrol car was struck by a limousine, police said Friday. Fairview Deputy Chief Frank Del Vecchio said the officer in the patrol car, Gino Sculco, 30, probably will not be disciplined for taking his car outside the borough. Investigators "want to see if any portion of the rules and policies were violated," Del Vecchio said of the incident. "At this point, I don't think [Sculco's actions] did." A lieutenant sent Sculco to get bagels in Fort Lee around 8 a.m. because...

About 15 tons of it on a recent day, imported from China, neatly pressed into mats and ready to ship to farmers and nursery growers who swear by the horticultural benefits of Blacker's hairy wares. The mats stored in southern Miami-Dade County are part of a world marketplace for human hair. Uses range from the obvious, such as false eyelashes and wigs, to the more obscure: it's a common raw-material source for l-cysteine, an amino acid frequently used in baked goods such as pizza dough and bagels

Mob rap in bagel boom   Feds tie S.I. attack in '01 to gangland rivals  BY ERNIE NASPRETTO and JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS  My Deli in Staten Island was the target of a firebomb attack in 2001. Only in New York would a Mafia associate nicknamed The Irishman allegedly provide a bomb used to destroy a Pakistani immigrant's deli that was competing with a bagel store protected by the mob. The feds yesterday charged reputed Gambino crime associate Edward Fisher with orchestrating the December 2001 arson attack on My Deli and Grocery in Staten Island. Police had...

Project Mustard Seed is an organized letter writing campaign directed at corporations that fund Planned Parenthood. Once a month, participants are asked to write a letter expressing opposition to a company's funding of Planned Parenthood. Project Mustard Seed gets its information about corporate supporters from Life Decisions International. If you are interested in joining the Project Mustard Seed contact the founder, David Arms, at PO Box 1951, S. San Francisco, CA 94083 or contact him by email at mseed4life@aol.com The letter recipient for March 2006 is New World Restaurant Group Inc. Operations: restaurants ( Chesapeake Bagel Bakery, Einstein Bros Bagels,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - He spent a lifetime peddling smut and once had an $11 million fortune, but after losing everything and becoming just another homeless New Yorker, Al Goldstein is now happy pushing bagels instead of porn. Goldstein, a founding father of America's porn industry, now hustles bagels and white fish at a New York-based deli and catering establishment. "I've always loved food more than sex, so this is really my first love," said Goldstein, 69, now a cold-calling salesman for New York City Bagels. "I've gone from broads to bagels." Goldstein has good reason to feel good about...

I was told that the New Bagle Worm Variant can run without launching an attachment. I'm a little confused. How do you actually get this if you don't open email attachments? And if I am using a browser other than IE, am I still susceptible?

My daughter was out getting her ears pierced before enrolling in the Navy -- we weren't sure of the age cut-off, or what the risk of infection would be, but that doesn't matter because this is a vanity -- and afterwards we got mighty hungry. I took her out to breakfast, and we had bagels. I had cream cheese on mine, she had jelly. She made fun of me, and I told her she didn't know how to eat a bagel. It made us both so mad we could've stomped our feet. To settle this feud, we thought we should...