posted December 25, 2006 03:36 AM         

I LOVE bagels, and surprisingly I can make RAW bagels:

Soaked walnuts, flax; sprouted kamut, onions, celery, olive oil, organic honey, soaked raisins, coriander, sprouted caraway seed.

Moulded into a bagel and dehydrated to perfection, served with cashew cheese, corriander, chili, sundried tomatos, olives and marinated mushrooms.. mmmmmm

posted July 11, 2007 10:17 AM         

mmmmmm....sounds celestial and divine.

bagels are so good.

posted July 13, 2007 03:01 AM         

Interesting Bagel Experiment:

Bagel Man proves everyone wrong
In a book named "Freakonomics"

The authors conclude their first chapter about cheating people, with an example and data analysis of a guy called Paul Feldman. This remarkable story and the data it produced, really got me thinking about the real nature of people.

Now Paul Feldman started a small bagel business, whereby he delivered a batch of bagels and the cash deposit jar to a company and employees could basicly then help themselves to bagels and cream cheese and just had to deposit $1 into the jar. Neither Paul nor anyone affiliated with him was there to ensure that everyone who took a bagel, actually paid for it.

From starting this bagel “experiment” at his own company, he eventually expanded it and Paul was delivering to hundreds of different companies every morning. Paul also kept detailled statistics of the business from the beginning, which meant that he could easily determine how much money he was making or losing.

Across all the years of data capturing while running the business, Paul could prove that people only “cheated” (ie. did not pay) 13% of the time. Does this mean that people are actually inherently good of nature? I don’t know, but it sure is a fascinating story.

Note: I tried to give the shortest possible version of Paul Feldman’s story. For a more detailed version, read Freakonomics or check out this link http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article536180.ece