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New York Times bagel claims
Yesterday,
New York Times California restaurant critic Tejal Rao sparked a lively Twitter debate with a new report making a bold bagel claim: Some of the best New York City-style bagels in the country are actually being made by California bakers. In the report, Rao details how a range of Los Angeles and San Francisco bakers are increasingly experimenting with different regional styles, including chewy, dense, malty NYC-style bagels, with impressive results. To top it off, it was all bundled under an incendiary headline guaranteed to spark a Twitter war: “The Best Bagels Are in California (Sorry, New York)”