Bagel + Pretzel

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(1) 美国食物：bagel(贝果面包或硬面包圈). VOA Chinese, Dec. 2, 2010.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20101202-AMERICAN-FOOD--bagelS-111220914.html

(2) Pretzel
(a) The Twisty History of Pretzels; This Food Favorite Has Benefited From
American Ingenuity (Hey, Let's Sell Food Burned by Accident!) CBS News, Nov.
21, 2010.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/21/sunday/main7075650.shtml
("German immigrants, now known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, brought soft
Bavarian Pretzels to the state. But it took American ingenuity to create a
HARD Pretzel, in the small town of Lititz, when Julius Sturgis decided to
try some soft pretzels he'd burned in 1861")

Lititz, Pennsylvania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lititz,_Pennsylvania
(Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery)

* pretzel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel
(caption of an ancient painting: "An illustration from the 12th century
Hortus deliciarum from Alsace may be the earliest depiction of a pretzel,
shown at a banquet with Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus")

(b) Julia Moskin, Making Soft Pretzels the Old-Fashioned Way. New York Times
Style Magazine, May 26, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/dining/26pretzel.html?scp=1&sq=pretzel&st=cse

My comment: There is no need to read it. Just take a look at the pictures.



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