Absnasm is falling to pieces
Are you still in London?
Have you tried going to Golders Green? From what I understand, that’s the main Orthodox Jewish area, my uncle and his Orthodox Jewish wife live there. I’m sure you could find a good bagel. Kudos on making your own though, I’m very impressed.
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I have been there
...and I loved the neighborhood, and the bakeries, and the grocery stores, and an Israeli café where we had a really nice snack. (One of the bakeries was looking for a worker, and I was actually tempted!) I tried bagels from a couple of bakeries there, and while they were fine, they were just different from what I was used to – more like regular bread. New Yorkers swear that there’s something unique about their tap water that makes their bagels special, which is probably a stretch… I’m sure there’s some food science to be worked out here; I’m not sure my little kitchen is up to the job of doing that, but maybe I can come up with a small-scale solution!
Absnasm is falling to pieces
Isn't New York tap water really horrid?!
Maybe you need to pass it through seven people before you make bagels out of it or something! ;-) That makes a lot of sense, though, apparently you can’t make Guinness anywhere in the world apart from Dublin because the water is all wrong – it really affects the taste.
