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Bill de Blasio's bagel gaffe and the fraught politics of food

  • Written by Stacy A. Cordery, Professor of History, Iowa State University
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If New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hadn’t already dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, #bagelgate might have been the nail in the coffin.

His Jan. 15 tweet praising a toasted bagel on National Bagel Day instantly set off hardline bagel devotees-cum-voters. De Blasio quickly amended his...

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