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National Bagel Day 2025
Today is National Bagel Day and I don’t have any of these in the pantry, either. Oy, somebody needs to get to the grocery store already.
Everything Bagel
I definitely invented the everything bagel. There’s no doubt. It’s undeniable truth. It’s one of those things that’s 100% true, 50% of the time. ~Joe Bastianich
I love the Everything Bagel. It is a phenomenal thing.
Actually, the basic bagel is a marvel of baking. They’re marvelously crusty on the outside, fluffy and delicious on the inside.
It makes a glorious sandwich or serves as a delicious platform for butter, cream cheese, jam or even peanut butter for breakfast or a snack.
How can you go wrong with bagels?
Well, I can because they are carb-intensive. I’m so close to my next A1C blood test and I’ve been on this special diet since last time.
What’s a bagel-lover to do?
Keto Bagels?
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Yeah, buy it.
I don’t mind cooking.
Sometimes, I even like it. Mostly, it’s because I’m going to get something made exactly the way I want it, but it’s not quite a passion for me.
If there was some kind of bagel-making doodad, great, I’d probably get one and use it periodically.
Eventually, I guess we’ll all have robots around the house doing this stuff for us. That would be nice.
Until then, I need to see if I can find some low-carb bagel options at the store.
Empire City Bagels
New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede’s, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke’s with all the friends you had inherited along the way. ~Shirley MacLaine
That’s how New York City used to be. That’s how it ought to be. Hopefully, they’ll get back there in a few years.
Until then, I have Empire City to hold the classic New York City in my heart and imagination.
The featured character in the first book of The Sentinels series is Tanda “Blue Banshee” Cohen.
She enjoys a blueberry bagel with strawberry schmear and a vanilla latte as her go-to treat at the Zavijava.
Even Empire City has that classic New York City bagel experience.
The two major comic book companies had their own approaches to superhero worlds.
Marvel went with fictional things occurring in real places. They had fictional sites like the Baxter Building, Avengers Mansion and the Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.
DC (Detective Comics) went with completely fictional places like Metropolis, Central City, Gotham City and Star City.
Both have their advantages and drawbacks. I’ve taken a hybrid approach.
Empire City is, inch for inch, New York City. Yet it’s different.
There are eight boroughs instead of five. Some of the place names retain their Dutch feel instead of the British-ization that occurred in our world.
Like the comic books, I rename certain things to associate with secondary characters or fictional historical events.
Like Marvel, I don’t reinvent what doesn’t need to be changed.
Tribeca, the Lower East Side and Hell’s Kitchen / Chelsea can be what they are in both worlds.
I don’t know NYC as well as I need to, but now (sadly) is not the time to go do on-the-ground research.
I’m hoping things get cleaned up enough in the next few years to get that taken care of, but we’ll see.
Until then, off-site research will have to do.
That’s all for today. See you on Saturday for something groovy and exotic that I’ve never tried before.