10/06/2026
I've always found it interesting how much value we place on the finished product and how little attention we give to what came before it.
The result is only the final piece of a much bigger process.
For me, a market bagel doesn't start on market morning. It starts days earlier. Mixing dough, weighing and shaping each bagel by hand, then allowing time to do what time does best. Resting, fermenting and slowly developing flavour.
By the time the alarm goes off in the middle of the night before a market, most of the work has already been done.
Then comes boiling, baking, packing the car and heading to the markets before most people are awake.
The bagel you see at the stall is simply the final step in a process that began two days earlier.
The result is what brings people to the stall. The process is what brings the result there in the first place.
And personally, I think the journey from dough to bagel is far more interesting than the bagel sitting on the shelf. But maybe I'm a little biased 🤭
