After FOOD52 assistant editor kenzi posted a bagel recipe http://food52.com/recipes/22934-homemade-bagels and a beautifully photographed feature http://food52.com/blog/7342-how-to-make-bagels-at-home, I was transported back 40 years to when a college friend of mine and I spent a whole year trying to develop a bagel recipe. Most of our experiments resulted in waterlogged messes. As we were science majors, we let a few of them go, and they grew vibrant-colored colonies of bacteria and molds. With persistence, we found we could not only make bagels, we could make six completely different flavors at a time. We celebrated our success by making 54 different bagels for a party. And I doubt that either of us has made a single bagel since.

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