Thursday, March 7, 2013

Morning Indulgence

Whole Wheat Everything Bagel from Tompkins Square Bagels


You haven't eaten breakfast yet. But your watch still reads a respectable morning hour. You've convinced yourself you don't need anything while passing bakery after bakery. Until you finally give up. You hang a quick right, push the door open and slowly step into the shop's comfort. The air is heavy with aromas of freshly baked bread, buttery puff pastry and house coffee.

Nothing is more universal than food, nor are those delicious pangs known as cravings. Delicious only if you give in to them, that is. And to be honest, we all ultimate do because that's the (only) fun part of cravings: satisfying them. Cravings have lured me into patisseries for a pain au chocolat, driven me to New York's privileged bagel shops and beckoned me to order churros con chocolate from Spanish street vendors on many a dreary morning. And they were always made a touch brighter for it.


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