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CHEER: The Beans’ Smoke House & Catering-led and community-fed “Students — Supplies — Success” giveaway is slated from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Newfane Methodist Church, and every student

JIM SHULTZ: Positively Lockport: Businesses I love

Lockport, like any place that people live, has its problems to solve. But I was reminded here last week over a coffee how important it is to also publicly sing

The joy of bagels

When I was a boy in California in the 1960s, my family was pretty much the only family I knew that ate bagels. That’s probably because we were Jewish and

The joy of bagels

Columnist Jim Shultz File Photo When I was a boy in California in the 1960s, my family was pretty much the only family I knew that ate bagels. That’s probably because we were Jewish and bagels are a Jewish thing. Bagels are to the Jewish people what tacos are to Mexican people — an invention of food so awesome that everyone else just started eating them. But it was not always that way. Even by the mid-1980s in the U.S. only one in five people had ever tried a bagel. They were mostly made in specialty bakeries that catered to Jewish customers. New York City, of course, was the bagel capital of America then, a place where those great round inventions, slathered in cream cheese, had already begun to seep into the rest of the culture.

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