Re: bagels/ethnicity
On Sep 10, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
I was going to bring that up. That’s what’s so funny about this
original discussion being posed as if bagels and pizza were
traditional things that were handed down pristine and perfect and
shouldn’t be messed with.
According to an article in an inflight airline mag I read once,
something similar is true of sushi - that originally in Japan it was
special-occasion food, but in recent decades, they’ve imported
American-style sushi, and it’s become more of an everyday thing. Of
course, inflight mags might not be the best source…
Doug