The bagel [electronic resource] : the surprising history of a modest bread / Maria Balinska.
Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.Description: xx, 220 p. : illISBN:- 9780300112290 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300112297 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 641.8/15 22
- TX770.B35 B35 2008eb

"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-210) and index.
The family tree -- Of bagels and kings -- Rituals, rhymes and revolutions: how the bagel lost its worth but kept its value -- Bagel polemics in an independent Poland -- Boiling over: the immigrant bagel and the struggle for workers' rights -- 'Kings of the line': the story of Bagel Bakers' Union Local No. 338 -- The 'bagelising' of America.
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