In this installment of our "How to" series, native New Yorker Raphael Pope-Sussman tears mediocre bagels a new hole.
One of the most important parts of life in New York is learning to eat a bagel. Many ignorant people come to New York (or even live their whole lives here) believing that they understand how to eat a bagel. But they do not.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn. So was my mother. My grandparents grew up in the tenements of the Lower East Side. We are, if you will, a reasonable (or highly unreasonable) group of New York Jews.
It was thus my birthright to become a student of the bagel.
