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<\/p>\nI was on a bagel diet; I actually thought eating\u00a0sesame and poppy seed bagels was a good thing.<\/p>\n
My back-up bagel purveyor was Amster’s at Cedar Center.\u00a0 The counter woman there, Marilyn Weiss, volunteered for school levies, racial integration projects, and did a ton of schlep work at my shul<\/em>.\u00a0 Amster’s was all about Marilyn’s personality.\u00a0 Unfortunately, she died in 2000, and the place closed a few years later.<\/p>\n I also went<\/strong><\/span> to Better — as in “Better Bagel” — on Taylor Road.\u00a0 The owners were New Yorkers who wore kippot <\/em>(yarmulkes) and Brooklyn Dodgers shirts.\u00a0\u00a0 I figured they knew bagels.<\/p>\n They didn’t. Their bagels were too doughy and not crispy enough on the outside.\u00a0\u00a0 Better Bagel changed its name to Brooklyn Bagel.\u00a0 No better.<\/p>\n Go to<\/strong><\/span> Bialy’s.\u00a0 If Bialy’s ever closes, we’re in bagel trouble in Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bialy’s Bagels in University Heights, Ohio, was my bagel supplier for years.\u00a0 I would go swimming; go to Bialy’s; buy 15 bagels; eat two; drive to my mother’s, give her three; and take the rest home. I was on a bagel diet; I actually thought eating\u00a0sesame and poppy seed bagels was a good thing. My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shul-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"bialy-bagels-best\"](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bialy-bagels-best-300x254.jpg\" "\\"bialy-bagels-best\\"")
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