Bagelazo!

Ok. You're gonna need your bagels tomorrow.

Did you know that you can get REAL bagels in Baires?

Yep. Put in your order now and get 'em delivered to your door. My order's in ...and I can't wait!

We've talked about them in this space before ...and lemme tell ya, these are the real deal.

My own schedule is so f*&^!#-up that I'm hesitating putting in a regular order for every Saturday or Sunday or whatevah ...but what the hell, if I'm not here, the portero can eat them!

Anyhoo, they are so supreme (♪♫ lyrics I write of them ...I dream ...dream day and night of them ...and I scheme just for the sight of them♫♪) that you'll want them to be part of your regular fix.

After living in Buenos Aires Argentina as long as I have ...and remembering my first years of longing for a REAL bagel ...I feel that it is my CIVIC DUTY to support good people that want to go through the effort necessary to produce them.

Full disclosure: I am a baker and my first job was in a bagel bakery; try them, if you don't like them, you can throw stones at me.

My buddy, Frank at Sugar & Spice, is a fellow baker and he loves them as much as I do.

Taos Turner has waxed rhapsodic, too. If you don't know what these babies taste like, you are missin' out.

But don't try making bagels at home; it's too specialized and too much work for un departamento porteño.

When I dove into my first "Salmón Total", I was taken aback ...back to my roots. What a tremendous sensation. Although the amount of lox was not as ridiculously heavy as back in the old country, more important was the flavor and the intensity. Nothing less than satisfying.

I did have a complaint, however. My sandwich was wrapped and delivered with SUCH care, in the highest quality shrinkwrap ...that the tremendous bagel lost a little of its crunch. Not a biggie for us so far from NYC. They need to get some cheap deli bags ...for us that know. For porteños, they can give the careful packaging!

Not much of a complaint, eh?

Super. What a great addition to the community. Sometimes, the simplest of things are the things that make you feel SO VERY GOOD.

EL BAGELAZO came late to our influx of immigration. I hope that all of us will help them stay around during these tough economic times. They give us something so affordable and, in some cases, so necessary to maintaining those lovely tiny happinesses that are crucial to the little rewards we need to go about our our own daily struggles as well!

Keep 'em comin', Bagelazo!