From hand-shaped crust to factory line, a story of standardization shaping how we eat and what we value.
The bagel’s iconic hole may have been a marketing illusion to sell more bread during longer baking times.
Standardization of bagel sizes emerged not for consistency, but to ensure uniform pricing across immigrant bakeries in New York.
Bagels were once used by Chicago-area bakers as a covert metric for economic inflation monitoring in the 1920s.
The term 'bagel' spread globally via a single 19th-century immigrant kitchen that inadvertently shaped international bread-aesthetics standards.
From hand-shaped crust to factory line, a story of standardization shaping how we eat and what we value.
The bagel’s iconic hole may have been a marketing illusion to sell more bread during longer baking times.
Standardization of bagel sizes emerged not for consistency, but to ensure uniform pricing across immigrant bakeries in New York.
Bagels were once used by Chicago-area bakers as a covert metric for economic inflation monitoring in the 1920s.
The term 'bagel' spread globally via a single 19th-century immigrant kitchen that inadvertently shaped international bread-aesthetics standards.
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