KABBALAH MOMENT: SCOTTISH SALMON LOIN BAGEL

This is the real thing - the surreal New Yorker manna. I've been breakfasting this bagel for straight three weeks now and as a "testament" I say: Its miracle is as old as it is new, with the fish on it. At Russ and Daughter's I have multiplied my basket with a dozen assorted bagels, a tub of cream cheese and chives, a jar of capers, and the almighty half- pound luscious orange blub bellies.

The mysticism of eating could be an exaggeration, but to me it reaches the higher powers of life. Consider the egg on this bagel. Amen! And talk about a heavy breakfast - but the categories of flavor: the olive saltiness of capers over the hard-cooked chunks of yolk and white crumbling simultaneously with the toasted warm bread milky creamed and spiced subduing to the loin the summer of onions and the flowers of the sesame seeds - literally: eat your heart out, spoken-word poetry!    

Swallow (like the bird) your moment of silence.