So Long, Sammy Minzly

Sammy Minzly, co-proprietor of Brick Lane Beigel Bakery, died on 23rd September aged ninety Sammy Minzly – known affectionately in the neighbourhood as ‘Mr Sammy’ – was the presiding spirit of the most famous beigel bakery in the land, situated (as if you needed to be told) at the top of Brick Lane. Any visitor to London only has to ask a cab driver to take them to ‘the beigel shop’ and they will find themselves delivered to 159 Brick Lane, where the bakery is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week – and everyone is welcome. Once, I interrupted Mr Sammy here, just as he had finished shelling a hundred eggs, and we stood among the impressive steel machines for mixing up the dough to have a quick chat as the other bakers continued their work. While we were talking he began cutting beigel-sized pieces off a vast pile of dough. There is an inescapable sense of imperative here because as soon as one batch of beigels go on sale in the shop, another is going into the oven, and so it…

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