California bagels can be the best because the bread here is the best, but why compete?
The New York Times has been obsessing over California bagels since at least 2012
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San Francisco pop-up Schlok’s is one of the Bay Area’s new bagel operations trying to do its own distinctive version of the bagel.Jonathan Racusin
A lot of hoopla has been made about Monday’s New York Times article about how the bagels in California are better, written by the publication’s California restaurant critic, Tejal Rao. The bagels here are the “best,” the headline reads, with a wink of a parenthetical “Sorry, New York.” The assumption, of course, is that the bagels in New York are considered to be the pinnacle of what the product should be.