I asked myself this question while walking down Broadway this morning. The answer, my friends, is that a right-out-of-the-oven bagel is piping hot, chewy, and abolutely delicious!

It doesn't matter what kind of bagel it is, so long as it's not one of those horrible designer bagels, like blueberry or almond-apricot. Any fresh bagel made by a traditional bagel-maker is going to be tremendously good. I make it a point to always ask my bagel maker "what's hot" when I come in. I'm not always lucky: sometimes nothing is fresh. But this morning both the plain and the cinnamon-raisin were, and I feasted!