{"id":384,"date":"2013-07-24T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T14:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/?p=384"},"modified":"2014-03-23T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T22:01:10","slug":"what-no-bagels-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2013\/07\/what-no-bagels-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"What? No bagels in Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nP { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); line-height: 115%; widows: 2; orphans: 2; }P.western { font-family: \"Calibri\",serif; font-size: 11pt; }P.cjk { font-family: \"Arial Unicode MS\"; font-size: 11pt; }P.ctl { font-family: \"Calibri\"; font-size: 11pt; }\n--><\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I first arrived in Israel in 1968, following the &#8217;67 Six-Day War, to learn Hebrew and Jewish History at an<i> ulpan<\/i> on the border of the Negev and Judean Deserts, in the small settlement village of Arad (located a few kilometers west of the Dead Sea and 45 km east of Beersheba). I appreciated all the new things I was learning and the interesting foods I was being introduced to, but was shocked to learn that bagels didn&#8217;t exist in Israel. What? No bagels? How can I live and study here? How can Jews live without bagels? Being from LA, I often brunched at Canter&#8217;s Deli, the famous Jewish-style delicatessen in Fairfax. When it came to authentic bagels, I was spoiled.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The closest thing to a bagel, in Israel in those days, was a warm pretzel-looking thing being sold by a street vendor &#8230; and sold only in the afternoon. I wanted a real NY bagel for breakfast. So began my search for the perfect bagel recipe. I needed a chewy, dense mouth feel experience, and the local bread didn&#8217;t cut it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A friend agreed to send a recipe by mail; one she&#8217;d found in the NYT&#8217;s food section. A recipe for &#8220;Authentic, classic, New-York style&#8221; bagels\u2014which required kneading, rising, resting, forming, rolling, resting again, boiling, turning, and then baking. Since my small apartment didn&#8217;t come with an oven, I had to do the complex routine of making bagels on the top of a two-burner stove. It took several shopping trips to Beersheba to find all the ingredients, but I eventually did. Then I spent one entire day making and baking bagels. They were delicious\u2014a gourmet edible masterpiece.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">OMG, I thought later, no wonder Israelis don&#8217;t DO bagels. They&#8217;re too busy rebuilding their country. I decided to just get used to those warm pretzel-looking things. Instead of making bagels every week I helped plant trees in and around Arad.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When I visited Arad, many years later, the trees were standing tall and the warm pretzel-looking things tasted yummy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aish.com\/j\/fs\/82246757.html\">Here&#8217;s a fun site on the history of bagels.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"A Brief History of Bagels\" alt=\"A Brief History of Bagels\" src=\"http:\/\/media.aish.com\/images\/JLBriefHistoryBagels230x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nH1 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); line-height: 115%; widows: 2; orphans: 2; }H1.western { font-family: \"Times New Roman\",serif; }H1.cjk { font-family: \"Arial Unicode MS\"; }H1.ctl { font-family: \"Arial Unicode MS\"; }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); line-height: 115%; widows: 2; orphans: 2; }P.western { font-family: \"Calibri\",serif; font-size: 11pt; }P.cjk { font-family: \"Arial Unicode MS\"; font-size: 11pt; }P.ctl { font-family: \"Calibri\"; font-size: 11pt; }\n--><\/style>\n<h1><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">More than you possibly want to know about bagels.<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first arrived in Israel in 1968, following the &#8217;67 Six-Day War, to learn Hebrew and Jewish History at an ulpan on the border of the Negev and Judean Deserts, in the small settlement village of Arad (located a few kilometers west of the Dead Sea and 45 km east of Beersheba). I appreciated all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2013\/07\/what-no-bagels-in-israel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What? No bagels in Israel?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,19,29],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foods","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-writing","tag-food"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}