Fairmount Bagel
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Fairmount Bagel is the original Montreal bagel
bakery in Montreal
, Quebec, Canada.
It was opened by 1919 by Russian immigrant Isadore Shlafman, whose hand-rolled recipe quickly became a staple in the Mile End community. Shlafman later moved his bakery from a laneway to a two-storey cottage on Fairmount Avenue, building a large woodfire oven on the first floor, while his family lived upstairs.
The bakery is still family owned and competes with nearby St-Viateur Bagel
for the title of Montreal's best bagel.
In June 2008, Montreal-born astronaut Gregory Chamitoff
, who is related to the Shlafman family, brought Fairmount bagels with him aboard the International Space Station
.
Montreal-style bagel
The Montreal bagel, , is a distinctive variety of hand-made and wood-fired baked bagel. In contrast to the New York-style bagel, the Montreal bagel is smaller, sweeter and denser, with a larger hole, and is always baked in a wood-fired oven...
bakery in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec, Canada.
It was opened by 1919 by Russian immigrant Isadore Shlafman, whose hand-rolled recipe quickly became a staple in the Mile End community. Shlafman later moved his bakery from a laneway to a two-storey cottage on Fairmount Avenue, building a large woodfire oven on the first floor, while his family lived upstairs.
The bakery is still family owned and competes with nearby St-Viateur Bagel
St-Viateur Bagel
St-Viateur Bagel is a famous Montreal-style bagel bakery located in the neighbourhood of Mile End in the borough of Le Plateau Mont-Royal. Established in 1957 by Myer Lewkowicz, the bakery takes its name from its street, St-Viateur Street...
for the title of Montreal's best bagel.
In June 2008, Montreal-born astronaut Gregory Chamitoff
Gregory Chamitoff
Gregory Errol Chamitoff is an engineer and NASA astronaut. He was assigned to Expedition 17 and flew to the International Space Station on STS-124, launching 31 May 2008. He was in space 198 days, joining Expedition 18 after Expedition 17 left the station, and returned to Earth 30 November 2008 on...
, who is related to the Shlafman family, brought Fairmount bagels with him aboard the International Space Station
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...
.