On Friday, March 23, 2012 4:47:53 PM UTC-7, James Silverton wrote:
> I see that New Yorkers are up in arms about Consumer Reports' ratings
> of bagels:
>
> http://bites.today.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...e-some-boiling
>
> I can't say I've ever had much experience of New York bagels but there
> are two good bagel places even near where I live: Bethesda Bagels
> (Bethesda Ave, Bethesda) and Goldberg's Bagels (Tuckerman Lane, Bethesda
> and Boiling Brook Rd, Kensington). I believe both places make their
> bagels properly and boil the dough before baking but I don't think CR
> considered them.
> --
> Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)
>
> Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

In Los Angeles, as far as I'm concerned, the only place to buy bagels is at Brooklyn Bagel on Beverly Blvd, just past Alvarado. Been in the same family for three generations; Richard Friedman is the current owner and the place makes 16 varieties of bagels from hearth baked to plain water bagels & everything in between.

Harriet & critters