Bagels are sold in supermarkets across the nation and surpass the donut as an essential breakfast item.
Over this century, the popularity of bagels spread through the growing Eastern European and Jewish-immigrant communities in New York City.
The first known written records about bagels appears in Krakow, Poland which dictated that bagels should be gifted to women soon after childbirth.
The beginnings of the modern bagel can be traced to the Polish obwarzanek, a thin, boiled, then baked ring of dough.
