The Bagel, By Maria Balinska
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Balinska pursues the transatlantic journey of this sustaining snack from Warsaw street peddlers to the bakeries of New York's Lower East Side, where workers suffered equally dire conditions. The bagel went nationwide in the Sixties when a company called Lender's introduced the pre-frozen bagel.
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