Comments on: Night At The Beigel Bakery https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:15:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mary-Ann Tait https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326302 Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:15:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326302 So evocative a description I was transported back immediately to my working life as a community nurse in the East End. All my Jewish patients said “by-gl” not “bagel”. Your portrayal of these artisanal vocations and people at the heart of them are an immense joy to read each day. Reading you, GA, in conjunction with Dickens “Sketches by Boz” is feeding my connection with London now that I live back in Scotland. Continue your good work GA.

]]> By: Laurent Beaulieu https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326262 Thu, 02 Jan 2020 01:55:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326262 Nothing like a good bagel. We have a famous shop in Montreal who make bagels 24/7 for many decades now, an institution like this place in Spitalfields

]]> By: Robert Silverman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326099 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:54:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326099 wonderful story, wonderful pictures. thank you from outside Boston (US). But what are the different versions of beigels in the shop? not just plain beigels I hope? and they should all be sold warm! but also thank you for the eloquence:

They come in sporadic waves, clubbers and party animals, insomniacs and sleep walkers, hipsters and losers, street people and homeless, cab drivers and firemen, police and dodgy dealers, working girls and binmen. Some can barely stand because they are so drunk, others can barely keep their eyes open because they are so tired, some can barely control their joy and others can barely conceal their misery.

]]> By: Charlotte Hunter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326089 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:51:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326089 Lovely. The best part: “. . . Beigel Bakery exists as a touchstone for many people who have little else in life, and who come to acknowledge Mr Sammy as the one constant presence.” Tales of kindness don’t get the attention they should; thank you for sharing this one. It made my morning.

]]> By: Annie Franklin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326084 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 13:05:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326084 I love this place, decades of early morning memories, sitting on the pavement outside, black coffee and a beigels, before rummaging through the piles of clothes on a Sunday.
Wishing you a Happy New Year, and thankyou so much for these wonderful blogs, receiving tbem daily is a Joy, and you are a Star

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326083 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:49:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326083 Oh, They Look So Delicious!! I wish I could get there from Canada!!!??????

]]> By: Elsa https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326081 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:59:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326081 Lovely photographs. Made me think of Maurice Sendack’s picture book, In The Night Kitchen,.,……. In a good way of course.

]]> By: Jeanette Hollick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326078 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:07:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326078 Great Bakery – Great post.
Thankyou!

]]> By: Karen Rennie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326073 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:30:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326073 I can taste them now…..mmmm best plain and steaming hot!
You describe the motley queue so well…full of anticipation.
It is simply the best end to any evening or start to any morning?
One Christmas, I collected a huge ( Gardners I imagine!) brown paper bag,
filled with about 50 or more plain beigels to a Christmas feast.
Dad always chose onion platzels in preference, and of course
hot salt beef in sliced rye bread, with mustard, if more substantial fare was needed,
would be carved at the front of the shop.
It doesn’t matter whether you pronounce ‘b-a-y-g-el’ or ‘b-y-g-l’, they are the best!!!

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/30/night-at-the-beigel-bakery/#comment-1326071 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 09:50:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178713#comment-1326071 First, I had to look up the differnce beytween beigel and bagel (I only knew bagels) andafter reading your post, I also looked upseveral recipes and decides to make beigels (not bagels) this week-end. Thanks for giving me the idea. Happy New Year to both, Shrodinger and yourself, dear G.A.

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