Round, with a hole in the middle, the bagel is made with high gluten flour and is boiled before it is baked creating a crispy outer crust and a chewy inside. Brought to the United States by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe during the 1900s-1920s,...

A bagel is a bread product traditionally made of yeasted wheat dough in the form of a roughly hand-sized ring which is first boiled in water and then baked. The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior....

Housewares departments in chain stores are taking advantage of America's newfound fascination with bagels to sell various bagel slicing paraphernalia to shoppers. Approximately $2.3 billion worth of bagels will be sold in 1996, up 46.6% over 1995. Bagel slicers offer customers an easier way...

Stephen Fleishman, the owner of the six Bethesda Bagel and Whatsa Bagel shops around town, feels relieved. That fly that had been buzzing around his face has finally found the window. Fleishman's popular home-grown bagel company has had to endure a long succession...

He skipped the bagel. New Yorker Rudy Giuliani dropped into a California bagel shop Friday in the middle of a state fundraising swing. He pumped a lot of hands. Smiled for pictures. Had some coffee _ even autographed a paper cup. But the Republican presidential...

The talking grandmother-shaped syrup bottle is back on television ads for Mrs. Butterworth's. The bespectacled Vlasic stork is hawking pickles again, too.Boxes of Swanson TV dinners this year went back to their original, teal color scheme and portion size has been reduced.All these once-heralded labels...