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So one of the first things that R, J and I do anytime we go to canada is look for montreal style bagels. This started the very first time when visiting my high school friend Mark in Burlington during college, and took off when my folks were living in Toronto and we would go down to St. Laurence Market for them, bagels that are smaller, a bit sweeter and way more complex in flavor than anything we could find in the US. Montreal style bagels are boiled and then baked in a wood fired oven.
Since then we've been bringing home at least two dozen bagels anytime we go to Vancouver.
But recently a wonderful thing happened--into the bagel wasteland of Seattle came Eltana, a montreal-style bagel place with some really friendly folks working there, and it opens early--6 AM. About 6:45 AM last weekend J and I were there since she decided to get up and they gave us a tour, gave her dough to play with, amazing.
Even more amazing, those bagels are awesome. I have a dream of making a brick oven in our backyard if/when we ever buy a house, and bagels would be part of that.
I totally agree with this reviewer:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/tastingmenu/archives/238299.asp
Go check it out for yourself.
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Dearest Sean, how happy I am to see you blogging! We share a love of all things baking, especially things with dough!
This post triggered a lovely memory of you, myself and Chris going to Toronto to visit during Cape Week and getting Montreal style bagels. I had never tasted them before and they were DIVINE.
Sadly, MA is also a bagel waste land with the one exception of Kupel's in Brookline. What's a former New Yorker to do?
Anyway, when we next get together (on either coast), let's bake some pizza up together, ok?
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