We all love baked goods. Throughout the world, there are a variety of breads and pastries sold in bakeries, and quite a few of them have a unique cultural history of their own.

烘烤的食品大家都愛。全世界有各式各樣的麵包和點心派在麵包店販售，其中許多還有自己獨特的歷史文化。

In the U.S., bagels are a popular breakfast food. Shaped like donuts, they are different from other bread products because they are boiled before they are baked. This gives them a dense, chewy consistency unlike other fluffier types of bread.

Bagels were originally an Eastern European creation, and they were brought to the U.S. by Jewish immigrants. As their popularity spread, bagels began to lose their ethnic identity. Today, they are something that almost everyone eats and are usually topped with an American creation from 1872—cream cheese.

貝果在美國是受歡迎的早餐。狀似甜甜圈的貝果和其他麵包不同之處在於，貝果在烘烤之前會先用水煮過。這讓貝果有種別於其他鬆軟麵包，有種紮實、有嚼勁的口感。

貝果原產自東歐，猶太移民將它引進美國。當貝果越來越受歡迎時，其民族色彩也開始消失。今天，幾乎每個人都會吃貝果，而且上面通常會抹上美國一八七二年的產物——奶油乳酪。

軟式蝴蝶餅口感類似貝果，因為在德國很受歡迎所以常被認為是德國人發明的。然而，一般相信蝴蝶餅是七世紀時的一位義大利修士發明的。在烘培之前，這名修士將麵糰塑成像雙臂交叉、手掌放在肩膀上的形狀——也就是當時禱告的姿勢。當孩童們學會禱告，修士就會發放這個給他們，並將它們命名為pretiolas，義大利文的意思就是「小小的獎勵」。蝴蝶餅是在之後很久才在德國流行起來。