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Lessons learned flying the Bagel Flag today
The bagel flag means friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and really anyone walking by my house can stop by, fix a plate with a fresh out of the oven…
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“Don’t tell Uncle Morris his bagels are frozen."
Lenders bagels PR blitz in the 1970s made sure readers knew a bagel was just a "roll with personality" for all to enjoy. With any topping. But their ads…
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What do good bagel ads and good public infrastructure have in common?
The 1970s. As the bagel went from being a food known and loved in Jewish enclaves to a food introduced to the rest of the country, bagels ads proclaimed…
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"Do we have to take the bagel to the supreme court?"
From the Klan testifying at the Committee on Un-American Activities to a exchange about the greatness of pickles to sanewashing unsavory characters for…
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Flying the bagel flag
2025 is a time to dig in locally and get to know my neighbors. So I flew the bagel flag to encourage folks to stop by, fix themselves a bagel and chit…
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Midwest Bagel Quest returns to NYC
Plot Twist! I decided that narratively my bagel quest had to end back where I started. I traveled from Manhattan to Brooklyn to Queens and was surprised…
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The dangers of ignoring the historical record
Be it assertions that Milwaukee hadn't seen a hand rolled bagel until the 1990s or that criticizing Netanyahu equals antisemitism - we all need to…
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