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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: A swoosh and a schmear: Nike launches Montreal bagel-inspired sneakers
Description: Nike may have issued the deciding word in the long standing debate about which city makes the best bagels in the world: the footwear company’s latest sneaker is out, and it’s an ode to the honey-dipped, dense, chewy bagel made in wood-burning ovens.
The beige, low-rise sneaker was released on Jan. 13 in Montreal—before the rest of the world could buy one. As far as we know, this is the first time anyone has immortalized the city’s most Jewish culinary invention in a shoe, right down to the sesame seeds.
The CJN’s resident sneakerhead Avi Finegold...