The bagel is actually a European bread, a Polish one in fact. As our EU correspondent Georg Matthes explains, the birthplace of the bagel is Krakow. Everything you need to know about the Polish bagel on #bakingbread.
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In the multimedia series "Baking Bread," EU correspondent Georg Matthes bakes 28 loaves from 28 EU countries and spices his baking instructions with typical anecdotes about each land.