Fifty-eight-year-old Burhan Yilmaz is on his feet for more than 12 hours a day, selling the main fuel for millions of busy Istanbul residents – simit, the legendary Turkish bagels with sesame seeds.

The Turkish word “simit” has entered the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), prompting celebrations on social media as well as calls for a new emoji to represent the circular-shaped bread. The OED, in ...

New Yorkers are fiercely proud of their bagels, with good reason, so when confronted with something that looks like the circular bread, an initial reaction might be skepticism. But we have nothing to ...

A team of researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Adobe, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Toronto, Texas A&M and the University of ...

From top, clockwise: a Nutella achma, tahini pastry, mozzarella poacha, walnut baklava, and a chocolate-raisin pastry. Credit: Photo by Erika Kwee So when I happened upon a Instagram image featuring ...

It’s round, it’s doughy, but it’s not a bagel. That’s the New York verdict on the simit, a seasame seed crusted bread popular in Turkey that’s masquerading itself as a version of the city’s breakfast ...

It seems to be a little known fact in America that Middle Eastern nations are home to some of the world’s most talented bakers, and, locally, exhibit A of that argument is the wealth of Lebanese ...

A group of Turkish investors is hoping to make simit, a favorite bread of the Balkans, the trendiest starch in New York City. The group, led by Istanbul-based restaurant management company Yemekhane, ...

Pros: This Turkish-inspired shop, which operates several locations in New York and recently expanded to Georgetown, serves its sandwiches on traditional bread. The simit is a round, sesame bagel ...

Like Turkey itself, the simit -- the round, sesame-encrusted bread ring that is a ubiquitous presence on the streets of Istanbul and most other Turkish cities -- is entertaining some very global ...