By special request my need for a true New York style onion bagel arrived at Rose Foods this past Sunday. Studded with onions and salt these were the true bagels of my youth growing up in New York.
To me the onion bagel is iconic beyond all others. Though the most universally popular is still the everything bagel, which I find too overwhelming, an ersatz plotz of disparate spices coating the most common bagel.
But here at last Rose Foods bagel lineup is complete at last. Spread with full-fat cream cheese, Nova (Rose Foods), thin-sliced red onion, a splash of capers and slices of tomato, this Sunday my bagel repast was complete. I bought a baker’s half dozen, which are now sliced, put in a zip-log freezer bag to store frozen for future use, replenished, I hope, with future piles of Rose Foods’ excellent onion bagels.