Bagels

First of all, I apologize for the infrequent posts as of late. Along with finishing up a dissertation, an unfortunate camera incident has lost me about four blog worth of images.

Although I cannot tell you in pictures, I believe a good bagel lends itself better to description anyway. A good bagel should be very dense. When you toast it, you should be able to spread butter across the top without it collecting in little pockets in the bagel. The bagel should be so dense that very few of those pockets exist. The bagel should be chewy; even if toasted to crispness, the inside should remain chewy (unless you've had an unfortunate toaster accident). Finally, said bagel should not be over $4, even when dolled up with an egg and some breakfast meat.

Just to clear it up, there are no good bagel places in Austin. I'm sorry to inform the world of this, and in the event that I have missed something, become a follower and post a comment letting me know. Seriously folks, when Einstein's "bread shaped in an O" takes the "best bagel" on the Austin Chronicle Reader's Poll, there is just something wrong! And the runner up, Panera Bread, although a nice place to eat, to me has always lacked something in the bagel category. Now, when the grocery stores are being chosen behind these two places, that tells me that there ain't much is this lovely town for a bagel addict like myself.

Now, I know this is a long shot, but if you're ever in Bristol, Connecticut, and you would like to know what I mean by a good bagel, check out Fancy Bagels on Scott Swamp Road. Family-owned, and made in the traditional way, their bagels are worth the stop. Perhaps not the flight from Austin, but you never know...

And with these dreamy, dense bagels, you won't be famished by lunchtime. And if you are hungry, why not just have another!
Fancy Bagels doesn't have their own site, but they've been: Yelped