Ode To National Bagels and Lox Day

4 Variations On Bagels And Lox

Chefs reinvent classic bagels and lox for IACP week

A handful of chefs riffed on the iconic bagel with lox in preparation for the International Academy of Culinary Professionals' (IACP) annual conference, held this week in NYC. These delightfully fishy dishes will welcome the chefs, writers, historians, teachers and other food professionals who come together every year to present seminars, demonstrations and more. Photographer Gabi...

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Smoked Salmon: Off the Bagel

You know you love lox, now show it.

When it comes to breakfast, especially with regard to bagels, I have no new information for you. You either smear or schmear, layer on the good stuff and chow down. But when it comes to lunch, provided you won't be eating it on an airplane, smoked salmon is the protein du jour.

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What's The Difference Between Smoked Salmon And Lox?

Learn the different kinds of smoked salmon

Lox most commonly refers to Nova-style: whole salmon fillets cured in a salt-sugar rub or brine (like gravlax) then cold-smoked (unlike gravlax) so that they don't cook at all. There's also hot-smoked salmon, which is fully cooked with heated smoke. More smoked salmon knowledge, plus a nod to the purists, after the jump. 

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Hack Of The Day: CD Spindle Bagel Tote

Every bagel needs a safe place to call home

I've long grappled with the pitfalls of bringing bagels to and fro. If you wrap them in foil, they get smushed every which way. Plastic sandwich containers crush them to half their original volume, which is unacceptable. But thankfully someone hacked an item few people have use for anymore into the perfect carrying container for a bagel of any size or stature.

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My Crazy Bagel Secret

Because sometimes you don't have cream cheese

My crazy secret is that sometimes I run out of cream cheese because I use it in everything — cheesecake, mashed potatoes, pimento cheese, risotto — and, desperate for a fix, discovered that mascarpone cheese makes as delectable a schmear as anything. Oh, I see those old Jewish folks with their pitchforks off in the distance. They don't look happy. 

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There's Smoked Salmon, And There's Hot Smoked Salmon

I discover that cooked fish...can be better?

What? A piece of cooked fish could possibly trump a perfect slice of raw? Has traditional lox finally met its match? Let me elaborate. One day, at Upper West Side appetizing heaven, Zabar's... ::wavy dream lines:: 

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In Honor of Canada Day, A Bagel Lesson

Montreal's bagel scene rivals the Big Apple's

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