By CHARLES FERRUZZA
I love any e-mail that starts with "First of all, I would like to say how wonderful you are ..."! Especially after my so-called breakfast of black coffee and Nicorette gum. If I can't have a big fat doughnut, damn it, I'll take a compliment. But I'd really prefer a doughnut. Or a bagel slathered with cream cheese.
On that note -- the generous donor of the "wonderful" compliment, Daniel from Kansas City, Kansas, followed it up with a question:
"Where in Kansas City can I find good quality cream cheese? Yes, I do not really care that much for store-bought cream cheese, and in my opinion, ever since Bagel and Bagel turned into 'Einstein Brothers,' I personally think their cream cheese is atrocious. Any suggestions would be great! And if you know of a place to obtain great bagels also, that would be appreciated, too!"
Funny, I've never put that much thought into cream cheese -- it's so boring unless it's baked into a gorgeously fattening cheesecake. But Daniel's question did inspire me to call Kelly Gibbens at The Better Cheddar, which has two locations that sell a pretty dazzling selection of cheese.
Kelly's advice to Dan is Smithfield Cream Cheese, a product from New Holland, Pennsylvania. Kelly says the consistency is creamy and smooth, and it has a richer flavor than most commercial cream cheese varieties.
And regardless of Daniel's opinion of the cream cheese there, bagel-loving Rick Hellman, editor of the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, likes the product sold at Einstein Brothers. "I like a softer bagel," Hellman says.
But I'll be interested in what the Fat City readers have to say.
If you have a question for me, send it to charles.ferruzza@pitch.com
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I'm not a huge fan of cream cheese but I had stopped in at Jersey Shore bagel on Johnson Drive in Mission and my friends raved about the cream cheeses I got with the bagels. I was impressed that they actually whipped it up and mixed in whatever flavors as you order it versus a premade and packaged product.
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