The bagel : the surprising history of a modest bread /
Surprising history of a modest bread
Maria Balinska.
- xx, 220 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.