Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Bagels «

Sohla El-Waylly: In my heart, I think I’m a New Yorker, but I’m not. Born and raised in L.A., so that meant that I was deprived from like bagels for a really long time — good bagels. 

Ham El-Waylly: Yeah, for the longest time, my only exposure to bagels were like those frozen bagged bagels. 

Sohla El-Waylly: Me too, it was all about the bagged bagels. My mom was a huge fan of cinnamon raisin. And we didn’t have, like, our first proper, freshly baked bagel until I was, like, in high school. And my mom came across this bagel store, and it was in this really industrial part of Van Nuys. The main thing I remember about this place, and why I’ll never forget it, is that there was this story about how this woman drove over her husband in front of the bagel shop. And it wasn’t an accident, cause the main detail I remember from the story was that she backed up and then drove over him again, then backed up … 

Ham El-Waylly: [LAUGHS] 

Sohla El-Waylly: And drove over him again. And that’s the place where we got bagels. Now every time we went there, we would think about that story and it feels fitting because after I did a little deep dive into bagels, there’s a lot of crazy stuff in the history of bagels. We’re gonna see a little bit of violence.

Ham El-Waylly: Whoa. Violence? Murder? Bagels?

Sohla El-Waylly: [LAUGHS] 

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Sohla El-Waylly: Welcome to Deep Dish. This is the show where we do deep dives on the dishes we love … 

Ham El-Waylly: And them we eat them. 

Sohla El-Waylly: Hi, I’m Sohla … 

Ham El-Waylly: And I’m Ham.

Sohla El-Waylly: And we’re married … 

Ham El-Waylly: And we’re chefs. 

Sohla El-Waylly: We nerd out on food together all day long.

Ham El-Waylly: And we love learning about the stories behind different dishes and ingredients. 

Sohla El-Waylly: Now, we’re gonna do all that nerding out on this podcast. 

Ham El-Waylly: In each episode of Deep Dish, we’ll deep dive into a story behind a food. 

Sohla El-Waylly: Then we’ll head…