Daniel Thompson — a longtime Palm Desert resident whose ingenuity led to the mass production of bagels — died in Rancho Mirage on Sept. 3. He was 94. The lifelong inventor died as a result of a head ...

Reader [Eric Mockler] brought Louis “Lebel” Wichinsky to our attention, a colorful inventor he ran into some years back in the Borscht Belt of Upstate New York. Described as a Mel Brooks doppelgänger, ...

NEW YORK — Daniel Thompson, who five decades ago automated the arcane art of bagel-making, a development — seen variously as saving grace and sacrilege — that has sent billions of mass-produced bagels ...

Daniel Thompson, the California inventor who created the automated bagel machine and changed breakfast in America forever, died this month at the age of 94. Though not everyone looks on his legacy ...

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There's a lot of debate about who makes the best bagel in America, and it's thanks to Daniel Thompson that bagel snobs nationwide are able to have this discussion. Thompson, who died on September 3 in ...

Vic Glazer is one of the new breed of old-school bagel bakers. The tasty treats are hand-rolled and boiled before baking at Vic’s Bagel Bar. Tony Grob, 50, and Kirsten Atik, 37, were prepared to go a ...

Today, the bagel is a celebrated culinary New York City fixture. Along with the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and the dollar slice, it's a tourist attraction in its own right. That wasn ...

It once took time and tradition to make a bagel. A baker had to roll the dough, coil it into circles, boil it, and pop the product into an oven until the bagels were glossy and brown. And not just any ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Today, the bagel is a celebrated culinary New York City fixture. Along with the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and the ...