And the Bagels

So Hanif arrived after a ten hour drive that should have taken three late in the evening on New Year's Day. We had a fanstastic time driving around in the snow to different bars and an even better next day when the weather cleared. We started off at the Fairmount Bagel Bakery near Schwartz's for fresh sesame bagels and liberte brand cream cheese. The dough is sweeter than New York bagels and the holes are bigger. There is some kind of spectrum that I will plot someday between the Russian pretzel-ring bublik to the Turkish larger doughier simit (pictured on this blog on Aug 21, 2007) to the Montreal bagel and then the H&H style oversized overfilled NY bagel. Anyways, we thoroughly enjoyed ours for breakfast and then for a snack later in the day while skiing/skating around Mt. Royal Park.