Berlin's Best Bagels

Here's a great article about "Fine Bagels," newest project of Laurel, co-owner of the lovely local English bookstore Shakespeare and Sons.

(I've written about Laurel here and here, and about the truly abysmal state of the pathetic knockoffs that get marketed as "bagels" in Germany here and here.)


The article also delves a little, in the end, into the way Germans overcompensate for their history by trying to come off as ultra-supportive of anything that is in any way identified as Jewish:

"The times I mentioned the knishes on the menu were a kind of ‘Jewish dumpling,’ the sell-rate was near 100 percent," she said. "Though the Jewishness is, of course, irrelevant to the taste."

This is a whole other topic, and probably deserving of a blog post of its own, if not an entire blog!