Al Roker Uncovers The Origins of Bagels and Lox in New York City

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2 жыл бұрын

In his new TODAY All Day series “Family Style,” Al Roker explores New York City to learn about the origins of bagels and lox. Al visits Russ & Daughters where he learns how to slice smoked salmon, then he tours one of the largest fish smokehouses in the U.S. For a taste of the future, he also learns how to make vegan "lox" from cured carrots.
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@TheJudelaineChannel Жыл бұрын

As a New Yorker, it is so nice to learn the history of the food I always crave for each morning. Thank you for this informative clip. Al did a great job narrating the story. I watched it from the beginning to end. Impeccable story telling. Well done!

@leapintothewild 2 жыл бұрын

We need a LOT MORE OF THESE stories!! Love Al, love his love of food, love his intelligent curiosity, love his respect for history and culture. MORE, PLEASE! ❤️

@elbob17 2 жыл бұрын

If you're a fan of Al Roker in 2022, you need to seek employment. You shouldn't be watching this garbage.

@nicolehunter5927 2 жыл бұрын

I am from NYC , a black woman and I really Enjoy Lox and Bagels. Yummy thanks Mr.Roker

@kartofle123 2 жыл бұрын

Many Jewish delis used to have a poster with a smiling Eskimo holding a bagel and it had a caption that said '' You don't have to be Jewish to love bagels''. Anybody that knows anything about good food like a good bagel so you must have good taste in food.

@jackienaiditch7965 2 жыл бұрын

We live in Los Angeles...and have Russ & Daughters lox shipped to us. How decadent is that!

@freakyflow 2 жыл бұрын

I live in Quebec Russ & Daughters get thier Salmon shipped to them from a place 20 mins from me ...And along with Nova scotia Lobster And montreal smoked meat Put any of that into a Montreal Bagel ( smaller, thinner, sweeter and denser, with a larger hole,) from St-Viateur Bagel Sesame is my fav Alot of people like the All Dressed Throw 4 of them into a bag with a hot coffee Head down to something quiet/peaceful For me the St lawrence river where Yes even Blue whales can be seen...As i pick up fresh Bagels with the very fresh fish/lobster slices The girlfriend gets the coffee Her pate's ....It would be like you going to Philippe's And getting the french dip on a bagel And having a picnic at Runyon Canyon....That's decadent.. You should try Montreal Smoked meat from Schwartz's Deli Montreal (Online) Or the one in New york Katz Deli Online Both pretty really good I know Costco in Canada Has the schwartz's frozen smoked meat

@jackienaiditch7965 2 жыл бұрын

@@freakyflow So we're talking bagel and lox, with a coffee, consumed while looking at Blue whales in the St. Lawrence river? Sign me up! Sounds sublime. I'll take that over Philippe's and Runyon Canyon any day. (You're pretty familiar with L.A., I see.)

@skontheroad Жыл бұрын

And now that you know that Acme supplies Russ and Daughter's, and you can also get Acme at Trader Joe's, do you feel silly? 😅 Also, you can get it at Costco. They happen to have great nova!

@jackienaiditch7965 Жыл бұрын

@@skontheroad I've never tried the lox from Trader Joe's. Several years ago, I did try the lox from Costco, and it was terrible. So perhaps the Acme thing is more recent. Russ and Daughters is considered as having the best lox in NYC. We recently got some for a friend in Los Angeles, and he said it was the best lox he'd ever had. And, BTW, as with sushi or sashimi, the way the lox is cut is part of the deal. Russ and Daughters cuts their lox so thin you can almost see through it.

@moniquetate2376 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great video, Al Roker has a knack for reporting/storytelling, he really draws you in, thank you!

@nicoletanis3703 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy Al Roker coverage about Bagels and Lox. Now I am heading to the fridge for a nice breakfast of that sort. Hmmmm!

@allylovesu14 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll never forget the shock when I went to Russ & Daughters for a lox bagel and asked for a little roe on it. The cashier turned the iPad around and the total was $45! Russ & Daughters leaves an impression one way or another 😂

@amarbaha 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to NY! Lol

@cindyweitzmann 2 жыл бұрын

Now I always get the roe. Yes it’s expensive but soooo delicious.

@ZagnutBar 2 жыл бұрын

Just buy the ingredients from the market and eat at the little park across the street. There's a coffee vendor there too. You'll save a huge amount of $$

@cindyweitzmann 2 жыл бұрын

My family has been going to Russ & Daughters since it first opened. Every Sunday growing up my father would take me with him to pick up the nova, (gaspe salmon) bialys, bagels, herring in cream sauce, matjes herring, sturgeon, sable, baked salmon, olives, sour tomatoes, pickles, cream cheese, tomatoes, onions and lots of lemons. Oh and lox wings; my favorite. Let’s not forget the chocolate babka, chocolate twists and halavah! A beautiful feast. My brothers both live out of state now but have their R&D fix shipped!!! If you haven’t been there go. Enjoy.

@douglassauvageau7262 2 ай бұрын

One product that caught my eye was 'Belly-Lox'. I assume that is the higher-fat portion of the fish.

@feliciaalbanese3338 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful story!! Thanks Al!

@veganbeth 2 жыл бұрын

Love that they are focusing on the origins of a bagel as a food brought to the US and made by by Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Many other KZfaq videos on bagels completely erase this important history!

@douglassauvageau7262 2 ай бұрын

Mr. Roker's tour of the smokehouse was some quality journalism. GO TO THE SOURCE!🧐

@skateart1180 2 жыл бұрын

Love ya AL! You remind me so much of my dad. 💞

@gjpp3239 2 жыл бұрын

Dont forget the capers too! Prob on the smoked like I enjoy

@Liberdara 2 жыл бұрын

Love this!!! I never had their bagel but now I have a good reason to be back in NYC 😍

@luciemedici 2 жыл бұрын

Bagel with sable or whitefish salad 🥰

@mikkelnatas Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for making this! This is wonderful!

@janices6140 2 жыл бұрын

Great story. I really enjoyed it. I'm so hungry now. 😫

@bradjones7744 2 жыл бұрын

Great segment! Can’t wait to see more similar episodes by Al!

@elbob17 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine being a grown man excited about an Al Roker vid from the Today show. I hope you're either 12 or a paraplegic who can't work.

@terryrogers-kulick9499 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Al! Your the best! Looking forward to more food vlogs in the future!

@70mschristianlady65 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! Good job!

@jglasernyc 2 жыл бұрын

I've been to Orchard Grocer and Mooshoes, the food at the grocer is excellent (at least what I've tasted!). Great report.

@Reminisciences 2 жыл бұрын

Finally something positive. More of this please.

@patriciacobb501 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this segment hope there are more to come ❤️👍

@zoesworld9767 Жыл бұрын

It makes me so happy how one of my favorite foods is so tied to my culture :) and how all New Yorkers love it so much. Proud to be descended from Jewish immigrants

@zoesworld9767 Жыл бұрын

And so awesome to hear the history or Russ and Daughters one of my all time favorite restaurants. Love the super heebdster and often get a massive spread for family gatherings. Best memories

@marythomas2646 Жыл бұрын

Looks so delicious!

@LMays-cu2hp 2 жыл бұрын

Looking cool.

@lauraroberts9066 2 жыл бұрын

Yum!!!

@amarbaha 2 жыл бұрын

Love the food there. Best in NY

@fessendenful 2 жыл бұрын

ess a bagel was my favorite. now i live in portland and its a bagel desert. sad.

@scotsmanofnewengland7713 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite food for the morning and used to drive 20 miles to a Jewish Deli to have a lox and bagel 🥯

@bstafford112 2 жыл бұрын

Nice story AL.

@morenofranco9235 2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE BAGEL AND LOX! F- E - E -D ME! Thanks Al and Producers. Love you.

@lindag4544 2 жыл бұрын

I knew a Federman when he was a medical student, now a physician. only jewish boy whose family was disappointed he went to med school instead of staying in the family business...

@jessieayala2970 2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@alanhenryfruhling2752 Жыл бұрын

Yummy yummy

@shawnmichaels5934 2 жыл бұрын

What a awesome man I wish I could have met him.

@speaktruth9631 2 жыл бұрын

I. Love. Bagels.

@donnabaardsen5372 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent story; however, the sound wasn't. Very difficult to hear. Goes from ok sound, to can barely hear it. Very variable.

@briangleason5597 3 ай бұрын

Sir, We are so sorry. Please forgive us. Have a Blessed day. Can you forgive us. Give me a big hug.

@josevilas4927 2 жыл бұрын

I do my own flax seed and garlic bagel ( low sodium) and no preservatives after watching some tutorials on youtube and I was so surprised that my bagels were far better than the industrial frozen ones. I am so proud of my home-made bagels ;-)

@skontheroad Жыл бұрын

You were surprised that something home made was better than industrial frozen???

@Y0S3F 2 жыл бұрын

Great segment Al, I grew up on the Lower East Side back when Ratner's was still open and know a good bagel and lox sandwich when I eat one. All great in this episode except...the vegan thing, because it is so far afield from the bagel and lox and Jewish culture. I grew up in a place with old timers eating herring with their hands, and spewing Yiddish folktales. They would never turn away from a piece of salmon, smoked or pickled, nor from shmaltz herring with kichel. Vegan, what's vegan they'd say as they spread chrein (horseradish) on their gefilte fish. Basically, you want to be vegan, gezunterheyt (go ahead). But sorry ladies, carrots will never be lox. You might want to make tzimmes out of them instead!

@mikewidyk4186 2 жыл бұрын

Bagels are from Kraków Poland, my parents hometown! 🇵🇱 🥯 ☝🏻

@Yesu 10 ай бұрын

Masha Allah

@lcastellanosm 2 жыл бұрын

I can't prouve it but I heard many times say that the Montreal's bagels, where I live, are the best in the world, including those from NYC, where I lived too but I didn't taste those mentioned. What I can say is that the Montreal's bagels are so good and very comforting during our winters!

@kartofle123 2 жыл бұрын

Montreal bagels are 100% the best bagels in the world. NY bagels are more like buns with a tiny hole in the middle. Montreal bagels are nice and thin, crispy on the outside and soft inside with a large hole in the middle.

@cindyweitzmann 2 жыл бұрын

Luis. No way. And kartofle123 you are eating a flagel or a bialy. You will not get a bialy that compares to a New York one (even on Long Island) it’s the NYC water that makes our bagels and bialys the best there are. Just sayin!

@kartofle123 2 жыл бұрын

@@cindyweitzmann I've tried both. Have you?

@talksmoke1190 2 жыл бұрын

nyc bagels are horrible. Shouldn't even be called a bagel. It's a roll

@kartofle123 2 жыл бұрын

@@talksmoke1190 100% agree.

@christpunchers 2 жыл бұрын

His programming still running?

@igoryankilevich9941 2 жыл бұрын

R&D bagels are amazing but prepare to wait an hour or 2 in line

@indiol606 2 жыл бұрын

Tarrytown

@christianruiz5385 2 жыл бұрын

I just literally had a bagel and cream cheese and tomato onion and lox! yes I love a good bagel!!! Im in New York Daily for work and I live in New Jersey but nothing beats a good bagel! I pray to God the resolve the cream cheese shortage or else New yorkers will revolt

@rr7firefly 2 жыл бұрын

This vid's sound quality is very uneven. Sometimes nearly inaudible. When the KZfaq inserted ad comes on, it's far too loud.

@MrDan11422 2 жыл бұрын

What is locks?

@korymacdowell7615 2 жыл бұрын

Where’s Jada, Styles, and Sheek? Thought this was about the LOX!😂

@SandyWolf- 2 жыл бұрын

Cincinnati makes a darn good bagel as well!!

@aloeste3994 2 жыл бұрын

the only incorrect statement was that they are serving Kosher food. since they are not kosher certified, {{and many items cannot be kosher [like sturgeon ] }} . they had a kosher outlet until covid ,if i am not mistaken....

@aloeste3994 2 жыл бұрын

but acme is generally kosher products....

@SneakyCheeseThief 2 жыл бұрын

This was an awesome video … but the only thing I can think of after watching the whole thing is that a really high percentage of Acme Smoked Fish Company employees are probably married to other Acme Smoked Fish Company employees. Fish and smoke can’t be easy to fall asleep next to.

@kimkritzer5883 2 жыл бұрын

Love the representation!✡

@karlbraun9564 2 жыл бұрын

0:20 What you ate down there, wasn't a bagel.

@MickHuerta 2 жыл бұрын

Montreal still makes hand-rolled bagels everywhere. Better? YES!

@naomiarram5187 2 жыл бұрын

Shhhhh... Montreal bagels are THE best!!

@greenmachine5600 Жыл бұрын

Nope, they're good, but just not as good as a New York bagel

@skontheroad Жыл бұрын

Different. Not better!

@gbwiz 2 жыл бұрын

schmear shortage

@colinrynne9648 2 жыл бұрын

Wrong…..that Canadian connection with smoked salmon is such a misnomer…..smoked fish & smoked salmon is definitely also a Baltic + Scandinavian + German thing just like bagels so both most def came from the Jews and the old world……not Canada????? I hate how these pop-historian hipsters just make up narratives thinking “who will know the difference or check my facts…as long as it sounds good” that dude was just making up sound bite connections as he talked…..I guarantee you that the smoked fish on a bagel thing had absolutely nothing to do with Canada….

@kimkritzer5883 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed ✡

@gbwiz 2 жыл бұрын

ask a canuck what a schmear is...they got no clue!

@fabulousrobert6607 2 жыл бұрын

👋🏼😃 ah-ha ah-ha ah-ha

@jujugohard4289 2 жыл бұрын

Cmon New York stop playing yall freaking out over a shortage of cream cheese when you can just make it how you gona act like y’all the kings when yah buggin over some cream cheese

@user-fj1em6tf9p 2 ай бұрын

Hogwash. Los Angeles bagels and lox rules.

@Hotspur62 2 жыл бұрын

I've had a Russ bagel and it's okay. Kossar's is much better.

@cindyweitzmann 2 жыл бұрын

Russ & Daughters got their bialys from Kossars. The were the best

@robert039 2 жыл бұрын

Someone should of said Holy Ghost so he would malfunction

@kopensm 2 жыл бұрын

Go to Warsaw or Krakow if you want a real bagel!

@greenmachine5600 Жыл бұрын

No bagels in Poland 😂

@skontheroad Жыл бұрын

@Green Machine We all left (or worse). Who is left to make a bagel??

@michaelwmccoy 2 жыл бұрын

How NY claims its the city that never sleeps is just a lie and a hilarious joke. Try and go to diner in Brooklyn or Times Square at 2am. Its closed because they sleep lol.