on bagels: bagel world's fair

Bagels bagels bagels! I was all excited that we were going to have a bagel smorgasbord this weekend to go along with the smoked fish I got from Acme this past Friday. My husband and I joked that we could have one bagel from each of our favorites around the city: Ess-a-Bagel, Tal, Kossar's (bialy which they sell 6 to a bag at Grand Central if you don't want to trek downtown), and while you're in the neighborhood, why not throw in David's and Pinnacle too. Why not. A Bagel World's Fair of sorts.

I joked that I would make the identifying flags. Well, of course I had to make the flags! Anything for a yuk. (The flags say Esse! My kind of sentiment for a flag: Eat! (actually to identify where our bagels were from: Ess-a Bagel, meaning Eat-a-Bagel, ok now you understand better, I feel better.)) Here was our Saturday morning feast. Along with the fish, we enjoyed spinach tofu cream cheese and juicy delicious tomatoes from Lucky's Tomatoes (strictly wholesale to specialty shops in Manhattan, like the Jefferson Market in the West Village). I got to chatting with the people behind me in line, because we all had giant grins on our faces (Acme will do that to you, put a giant grin on your face), and they turned out to be the owners of Lucky's Tomatoes! I was so excited to talk to them. On the way home, they gave me 4 great big tomatoes to go with my fish. Now that's neighborhoody and great. Who was the lucky one that day? Me!



On Bagels is a new featured regular column for the blog. gee

Elaine has written extensively on bagels for this blog. She recently bought an alarm clock at IKEA where you can program your own voice to wake you up. Today, she and her husband will record, "It's Bagel Time!" as their new wake-up call.