The History of the Bagel
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The History of the Bagel

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 10, 202619 min

Making bread goes back more than 14,000 years but who first decided to put a hole in the middle and how did baker’s figure out to how to make dough rise? OK Let’s Learn about the answers to these questions and how the simple bagel became so much a part of breakfast everywhere. Reach out for questions, feedback and future episode suggestions: [email protected] Go to our new website- okletslearn.com Support the podcast and be named a producer/ inaugural supporter of the show here at this Patreon link: <p...

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Welcome to the OK Let's Learn podcast. This is a family-friendly podcast where we dive into history, science, books, stories, and tons of different topics. My name is Kevin O'Keeffe, so today, OK, let's learn all about the history of the bagel. Yes, the bagel. Depending upon where you live, it's either a part of your

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life so often or you don't really partake with bagels. Bagels is something that for whatever reason I didn't really have. I remember the lenders bagels growing up but that was from the supermarket and really experiencing a real bagel at a bagel shop.

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I didn't get that until I was out of college and now I really can't go without a bagel each morning. despite what you have with your bagel, what you put on top of it, and what kind of bagel it is,

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