The bagel : the surprising history of a modest bread / Maria Balinska.

Author: Balinska, Maria.

Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

Descriptionxx, 220 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Note:"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.

Note:The family tree -- Of bagels and kings -- Rituals, rhymes and revolutions: how the bagel lost its worth but kept its value -- Bagel polemics in an independent Poland -- Boiling over: the immigrant bagel and the struggle for workers' rights -- 'Kings of the line': the story of Bagel Bakers' Union Local No. 338 -- The 'bagelising' of America.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-210) and index.

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