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Launching a new career

Denny-Blaine woman turns bagels into a new venture

By Jessica Keller

Madison Park Time editor Christina Darling’s 2021 pandemic BINGO card didn’t include starting a new career by launching her own bagel business, Darling & Company Handcrafted Bagels.

After the COVID-19 pandemic derailed a trip to New York City with her brother, where eating bagels featured prominently on the itinerary, Darling said, instead of abandoning her gustatory explorations, she decided to take bagels into her own hands, literally, by learning to make her own.

“I said, ‘No, I can do it,’ ”Darling said.

Up until that point, Darling had never done anything more than eat a bagel, let alone consider making a career out of them.

Soon after beginning, however, Darling said she was determined to master the bready treats.

Eating a bagel and baking them, however, are very different things.

“I learned a lot on YouTube,” Darling said, adding she watched videos on bagel making frame by frame until she mastered a technique. Hand rolling her creations, she said, is something she is still perfecting.

Still, Darling was satisfied enough with her progress after her first weeks of practice that she started using her family and friends as test subjects. It was at that time that she debated whether her bagels could become a source of income.

Darling said she has worked in numerous jobs throughout her adult life, including at her parents’ publishing company, and was debating working for a non-profit after volunteering at a hospital, but she wasn’t sure if she would be happy. Then the pandemic hit, and Darling put future career plans on hold while she went into quarantine at her family’s home in Denny-Blaine.

After gaining confidence in her bagelmaking skills, and ever mindful of a need for income, Darling said she thought it was worthwhile seeing if her bagels would pay the bills.

“I found I really had a reception that I needed with my bagels,” she said.

Darling said she was also pleasantly surprised to discover that Seattle residents were clamoring for bagels.

“It’s like bagels have a special power that’s interesting,” she said. “The people that care, care a lot.”

Darling said residents’ hunger for bagels resulted in a business boom during the

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Christina Darling, owner of Darling & Company Handcrafted Bagels, stands with two of her creations.

A canceled trip to New York Center resulted in Darling’s foray into bagel making and her eventual new business.

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People’s PopUp Pantry helps ease grocery burdens

Photo by Laura Marie Rivera Satchel Black, a member of Coyote Central’s CRE-8 team, serves hors d’oeuvres prepared by the youth at a community open house, April 28.

Youth showcase talents at Coyote Central open house MP Times Staff report Members of the Seattle arts community celebrated Seattle youth arts organization Coyote Central at an open house April 28.

In addition to art classes that range from painting to welding to digital photography, Coyote Central also offers several youth mentoring programs. While Coyote Central operates using a “paywhat-you-can” model, for the first time, more than half its students are seeking scholarships.

Teen representatives from two of Coyote’s ongoing programs attended the community open house. They were joined by members of CRE-8, a cohort of fifth graders who commit to a three-year program. They have monthly gatherings culminating with a community arts showcase, and they act as ambassadors for school and special events. This month, they planned, prepared and served the food for the open

house: teen-made empanadas and arroz con leche. Members of Coyote’s Youth Advisory Board, who shared their thoughts on leadership through speeches and poems, also attended.

During the event, Bayla Cohen-Knott, 17, who has been taking classes at Coyote Central since she was 10, shared that she sees the organization as an ecosystem where everyone can be a leader, including the board, staff, teaching artists, youth and the community.

People also said farewell to Executive Director Claudia Stelle, who retired after 20 years at the organization. Coyote Central is currently conducting a search for Stelle’s replacement.

Stelle said the next executive director will “need to be a visionary leader with a firm commitment to equity.”

To learn more about Coyote Central, 2300 E. Cherry St., and its next executive director, visit coyotecentral.org.

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Photo courtesy Monica Jones de Borges Volunteers put out food and other items for people to pick up at the People’s PopUp Pantry, which takes place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays in the Coyote Central parking lot, 2300 E. Cherry St. Coordinators are hoping more people will sign up to volunteer on pantry days.

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Knowing that many people are struggling to make ends meet with inflation driving up the cost of groceries and more, three community advocates have started a food pantry.

The People’s PopUp Pantry is open from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Thursdays outside Coyote Central, 2300 E. Cherry St., across from Garfield High School.

“This was born out of the pandemic and the need that people have,” Monica Jones de Borges said.

She said the idea is that everybody who comes can take what they need. Volunteers ask people to sign in so the food bank that provides the food can keep track of how many people are being helped each week, but Jones de Borges said they don’t ask people about their incomes.

“It’s really a community food pantry,” she said.

The pantry has gained in popularity since it first started in early March, but Jones de Borges said they could use more volunteers who are needed from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on pantry days.

Currently, about 12 people are volunteering, but Jones de Borges said ideally they would have about 70 to ensure operations run smoothly and an adequate number of people are always available on pantry days.

For more information on the pantry or how to volunteer, email de Borges at Monica@peoplespopuppantry.com.

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Facing our earthquake truths together

L

ast month, a headline in the Seattle Times PNW Magazine screamed: “A deadly earthquake absolutely, positively will ravage Seattle.”

Because it was April 1, I was tempted to laugh after my initial flinch of dismay.

As one of the steady volunteers on the Madison Park Emergency Preparation Team, I was surprised by how quickly I wanted to put my head in the sand.

The article’s author, David Guterson, reviewed the seismology of the megathrusts expected in our region with the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and he offers only a bit of reassurance.

“Seattleites can feel confident that when the next megathrust

moment. quake happens He goes on to in the coastal describe another, Northwest, perhaps even bigPuget Sound ger, challenge for isn’t going to be roiled the us, however. way the Pacific “The next was roiled by major quake in the Great what is known as East Japan or the Seattle Fault Indian Ocean Zone, though, will originate directly earthquakes. under our city at There will a shallow depth. be plenty of The megathrust suffering, and Margie Carter quake will be of certainly some the 9 variety; the deaths, but no MP Emergency Prep Seattle quake will apocalyptic be more like a 7. lethality,” acDon’t be comforted by your take cording to Guterson. on those scale figures … a 7.0 Okay, I’m breathing easier for a

quake in 2010 killed more than 300,000 people in Haiti … or like the 6.9 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, in 1995, that killed thousands of people and did more than $100 billion worth of damage. As it turns out, geologic circumstances under Seattle are much like those under Kobe… [we’ll likely have] a ground rupture of about 6 vertical feet from Harbor Island to Issaquah ... Power, water, sewer and gas lines will be severed, as will the cables and wires that make internet connections possible. Our hospitals will be overrun, and our grocery stores will empty … firestorms, hazardous material spills, downed bridges, landslides by the thousands.”

Gulp! Given the daily on-

slaught of other unsettling news in the world, what’s a person to do with information like this?

Guterson reminds us that our brains don’t know how to take in these alarming possibilities, and so we gravitate toward the low odds and bet against it happening in our lifetime.

“And by betting against it, I mean not preparing for it. Every time an earthquake happens, most people are surprised … [so] it makes sense to take steps now, because by putting them off you increase the risk that your motivation will fade to nothing,” Guterson states in the article.

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Teen chef program debuts at Garfield community center

Photo courtesy Monica Jones de Borges A Seattle teen takes a photo of a meal she learned how to prepare at a meal workshop at the Garfield Community Center recently. She is one of about 10 students participating in a new teen chef program organized by Seattle Parks and Recreation supervisor Jean Lee in partnership with the People’s Popup Pantry. In the program, which is free for students to attend, teens learn how to make a dish taught by a local chef before tasting their creations. Lee said she hopes to expand the program to other community centers throughout the city to benefit more teens, but money is critical. Lee and volunteer/ donation coordinator Monica Jones de Borges are trying to raise money for the teen chef program so it can continue and remain free for students. Jones de Borges is also seeking additional chefs to conduct cooking sessions. To learn more, or to donate, go to peoplespopuppantry.com, or email Monica@ peoplespopuppantry.com.

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‘From the merry old land of Oz’ Tree Talk

By Steve Lorton

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f only Hollywood had consulted a gardener to design the sets for “The Wizard of Oz.” They’d have gotten it right.

Remember that iconic moment with Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and Toto standing on the Yellow Brick Road, looking at the Emerald City in the distance? Think of how that shot would have really popped if the road had been flanked with the chartreuse bloom stalks you see in the photograph: euphorbia characias wulfenii, sometimes sold as euphorbia veneta.

All last month and well into May, these Ozian flowers stand munchkin tall in clumps, often over 4 feet high and as wide, their domed blossom cylinders on stems lined with narrow celadon leaves. So spectacular and easy to grow is this startling and statuesque plant that it has been in cultivation in the Pacific Northwest for likely a century or longer.

There are more than 1,600 members of this genus. A number, like E.c. wulfenii, are native to the Mediterranean, many referred to as spurge or milkweed. All are easy to grow given rich, quick-draining soil and ample sunlight.

There are some surprises in this genus.

Houseplant lovers may have grown African milk tree, euphorbia trigona or Crown of Thorns, euphorbia milii or E. splendens.

The old-fashioned self-sowing annual, Snow-On-The-Mountain, native to central North America, is euphorbia marginata. If you ever bought gopher plant or mole plant and used it to discourage the ornery critters who give the plant its common name, you were growing euphorbia lathyris.

If last month, you noticed mahogany shoots emerging in perimeter plantings with unexpected orange blossom clusters starting to unfold, you were looking at the much loved, but much underused euphorbia griffithii “Fireglow.”

In time, this dazzler forms massive clumps with long-lasting fiery orange flower heads. When the foliage emerges, it combines powerfully with solid yellow or orange tulips or underplanted with cobalt blue grape hyacinths.

Most surprising of all, the poinsettia that graces nearly every home in the winter

TRUTHS, FROM PAGE 3 Making something of what we know When this article came out with its disturbing reminders, I was near the end of Rebecca Solnit’s book, “A Paradise Built in Hell. The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster.”

As it turns out, this was the perfect companion reading to clear my head. Solnit describes true (pre-2020 global pandemic) stories from recent history where ordinary people responded to a variety of disasters with creativity and compassion.

Reading these stories reconnected me with my own examples of the best in humanity I’ve seen in these last two years as people faced the fear, disruption and lockdown from the pandemic that upended our lives.

holiday season is a euphorbia — euphorbia pulcherrima.

When the blooms of euphorbia characias wulfenii lose their luster and start to turn to seed in summer, it’s time to cut the blooming stalks back to the ground. Carefully isolate each flowering stem, snip if off and compost it, but don’t remove the lower, new growth that will surround each of the old bloom stems.

With all the old blooms gone you’ll be left with a handsome mound of new growth, bluish green, to enliven your fall and winter garden and have the stems upon which next year’s flowers will emerge.

Now for the part of this story that would make the Wicked Witch of the West cackle with diabolical glee. The broken stems of many euphorbias ooze a milky sap, ergo the common name milkweed.

To some, the sap causes a severe dermatitis, much like contact with poison ivy or poison oak. Long sleeves and garden gloves are a prudent uniform when cutting the old flower heads to the ground.

Euphorbias should not be planted at the edges of ponds or near koi pools as the sap in the water can be fatal to fish. In some cultures, the sap is used for poison arrows or to stupefy fish.

My family physician once contacted me saying he’d been gardening and had an outburst of splotched and itchy arms and inflamed eyes with blurred vision. He’d gotten it while gardening and wondered if I had any ideas.

I responded, “My hunch is you’ve been cutting back …. [I named and described the plant] ... and you let that milky sap get on your hands and then rubbed your eyes.”

“Yes! Yes! That’s it!”

I instructed him to get in the shower and scrub thoroughly, starting with his hands, followed by his arms and then rinse his face and flush his eyes with clean, lukewarm water. I got a thank you note that made me feel like a horticultural Jonas Salk.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t pleased with myself.

Plants in 1- and 5-gallon cans will be in bloom in nurseries now, ready to put into your garden.

So, follow the yellow brick road to your favorite nursery and get one, two or three of these eye-popping, easy-to-grow euphorbias and stick them wherever you’d like to add some real emerald punch to your

Solnit reminds us, “Disasters demonstrate what is possible or, perhaps more accurately, latent: the resilience and generosity of those around us and their ability to improvise another kind of society. Second, they demonstrate how deeply most of us desire connection, participation, altruism, and purposefulness.”

The author raises the very questions and sentiments I’m left with: “Why didn’t this last? Why didn’t the deep sense of connection, the generosity and valor, the sense of purpose, the awareness that everything can change suddenly as both danger and possibility, last?

“If a disaster shakes people awake, then these are tactics to remain awake without a disaster.”

In these times of getting on with our lives, how do we stay awake to our deepest longings, our basic hunger for connection and a greater sense of purpose? How

Photo by Mary Henry During April and well into May, euphorbia stand in clumps, well over 4 feet high and wide. Gardeners have cultivated this easy-to-grow plant in the Pacific Northwest for likely a century or longer. garden.

For at least two months of the year, and likely even when the plant is not sporting its flamboyant flowers, your eye will be

drawn to the spot. You’ll be euphoric over your euphorbia.

It will put you somewhere over the rainbow!

“In these times of getting on with our lives, how do we stay awake to our deepest longings, our basic hunger for connection and a greater sense of purpose? How do we avoid returning to a way of living that was less meaningful and ultimately not sustainable?" do we avoid returning to a way of living that was less meaningful and ultimately not sustainable?

Wouldn’t squandering the opportunity to rebuild our daily lives in a more satisfying way be its own disaster? I take Solnit’s words as a call to action.

“Disaster reveals what else the world could be like — reveals the strength of that hope, that generosity, and that solidarity. It reveals mutual aid as a default operating principle and civil society as something waiting in the wings when it’s absent from the stage,”

she writes.

“Disaster may offer us a glimpse, but the challenge is to make something of it, before or beyond disaster: to recognize and realize these desires and these possibilities in ordinary times. If there are ordinary times ahead.

We are entering an era where sudden and slow disasters will become far more powerful and far more common.”

Neighborhood efforts to better prepare for disasters involve gathering supplies, establishing an emergency communication hub

and holding drills to practice the needed skills of staying calm and setting up mutual aid systems.

As we gather, we learn how to become more creative when we are required to make do with less than what we’re used to.

We make connections with neighbors we now greet by name on the street. We are preparing for emergencies, but, more than that, we are bringing to the present a sense of engagement with something beyond our self-interests.

We keep each other motivated to get stuff done, to stay out of denial without sinking into despair.

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PNB Orchestra and Seattle Opera present UNITY: A Concert for Ukraine Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and Seattle Opera have collaborated to present a benefit concert for Ukrainian artists.

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UNITY: A Concert for Ukraine will be performed one night only, May 16, at Seattle Center’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are givewhat-you-can with a minimum of $10. Donation amounts above $25 are tax-deductible. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be purchased exclusively through the PNB Box Office, 301 Mercer St., by calling 206-441-2424, or online at PNB.org. Subject to availability, tickets may be available 90 minutes prior to the performance at McCaw Hall. This performance does not include PNB dancers.

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Seattle Public Schools superintendent hosting spring listening tour Seattle Council PTSA and Seattle Public Schools are hosting a series of online community engagement events with Superintendent Brent Jones.

People are invited to join a Zoom meeting to share thoughts and perspectives during the sessions. Jones will be listening to families about how schools can be safe and welcoming spaces where students can learn and thrive.

ASL and closed captioning will be available at each listening session. Amharic, Cantonese, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese interpreters will be available at each event.

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Residents invited to offer feedback for next Parks District budget cycle The Seattle Parks District is seeking resident input about what projects they would like included in the 2023-28 park district budget. Planning was previously delayed twice because of the pandemic.

Comments can be submitted through May 12. Residents are encouraged to provide feedback for the plan by completing surveys on three related topics: enhancing access and services; restoring clean, safe and welcoming parks and facilities; and investing in the future. Go to https://www. seattle.gov/seattle-park-district/ park-district-planning/parkdistrict-funding-plan for more information and for the links to the surveys. Residents can also submit feedback about the plan at PDPlanning@seattle.gov.

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Fun and sun seekers on the boat

Revisiting the Park

By Richard Carl Lehman

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pening day of boating season was always a blast. After enjoying the festivities, John Gilbert, captain of the Gus Arno — our beloved water vessel — steered us past the Edgewater apartments and, at full throttle, motored to the rear of the parade. We were on our way to celebrate at Meydenbauer Bay Yacht Club, and as we got close, small boats escorted us toward shore and secured the Gus to other yachts. There was some apprehension about entering the club in cut-offs and bikinis, but our minds were put at ease with stares of approval.

A few hours later, after dancing and imbibing with other yacht club members, we aimed toward the setting sun, the Gus on full auto, and slowly proceeded to Madison Park.

Other yachtsmen must have noticed our group having just the right amount of fun! At one point we toasted ourselves at the ship’s bar and the added weight pushed the bow under the water.

Screaming, “Dive! Dive!” we got to laughing but then had to listen once again to the Gus’s weight distribution rules.

We could safely say, after tying the boat to the north side of Madison beach dock, that opening day was truly a day of “over-funning.” Some even sought lodging aboard for the night.

Summer was coming on strong, and the sun shone emphatically, unlike this 2022 present-day wet spring we are experiencing so far. We were fortunate to have the temperature on most of our cruises in the 60s and 70s.

One cruise, however, was quite the gray day, so very few folks showed up at the dock. We took our chances anyway, and at mid-lake the sun broke through.

We shut down the engines and declared it cocktail hour, which was a pleasant way to start our day. Other than the distant sound of 520 traffic, it was peaceful.

Suddenly, a shadow cast, and a distant motor could be heard.

There was a plane circling and the pilot cut his engines. He asked from about 50 feet above, “Do you have a restroom?”

When we answered in the affirmative, the Grumman Goose landed, and the captain and his lovely copilot came aboard. One by one, they both made a dash to our comfort station. Later,

the kindly pilot offered us some outstanding cognac, and it became a bona fide party. We tied the Goose off with a long line, and boaters asked what it was. Unsure if they meant the Gus or the Goose, we laughed and answered, “Oh that, it’s our dinghy!”

Some four cognacs later, while enjoying the camaraderie, listening to our low-fi radio powered by a car battery, we heard a voice in the distance: “Lehman!” A guy on the rear of a flatbed truck on 520 turned and flashed us a moon with style and balance. Cheering erupted! It was the first moon of the day! Our pilot friend said, “Now, that’s something I’d have trouble performing!”

In those days boat traffic was light so whenever a fellow water enthusiast sailed by, everyone waved hello. Sometimes we invited each other aboard to party together.

Our dedicated crew, even after a Friday night gathering in the local taverns, was eager to gather at Madison dock the following morning to enjoy a slow cruise.

The Gus was designed for a slow

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cruise. It was like pushing a brick through water.

The biggest event after opening day of boating season: the hydros!

All of Seattle looked forward to both the sights and sounds.

Anyone wanting to partake of this event on the Gus chipped in $5 for a full day on the boom. The Blue Angels would not be in the picture until 2007, but entertainment was provided by several well-seasoned World War 1 pilots and various barnstormers.

It was another gorgeous, warm day when we left the dock and motored south. A speed boat carrying one of our friends met up with us; he paid the captain $10 to get to the Gus. One of our more famous passengers was Marty Levine, a newscaster from channel 7 who had transferred from Seattle to Washington D.C. He called to reserve a seat, flew in that morning and sat front row center. Several others reserved spots. Our friendly passengers brought food and drinks for the day. As our crew arrived, we offered the morning cocktail of a quarter hot coffee and three quar-

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ters brandy: “Caffeine ala Gus!” Everything was going well, and with all hands present, we rolled the lines and other things and set our navigation with a 1948 Ford steering wheel. Exchanging waves and moons with passers-by, we arrived near the west end of Interstate 90.

As we passed a 40-foot Coast Guard boat, someone over a bull horn yelled, “Arrest ’em!” It was Dennis Boyle (seaman), son of Mr. Boyle of Boyle’s Drug Store (now Pharmaca), on his last four months of service. The Coast Guard was there mostly for safety reasons, speedsters, drunkenness, etc., although alcohol was in the gray zone in those days.

Today, there is so much more traffic, the rules of the sea have to be enforced. We had been truly minding our P’s and Q’s when one of the officers on a police cruiser stated, “I could lock you up for section 107G: ‘flaunting too much fun!’ ” Cruising west, we saw our spot on the northwest corner and blew the ship’s horn. Stopping just short we saw that it was filled

ing process and present interactive maps that detail draft boundary changes and how they may impact specific districts. Meetings will be offered online and in-person, and people will be able to ask questions and provide feedback directly.

The public forum for District 3, represented by Councilmember Kshama Sawant, is from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. June 2 at Seattle City Hall, 600 Fourth Ave., Bertha Knight Landes Room, or virtually at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82983603669.

with speed boats. When we approached, ticket in hand, I yelled, “Ah, I think this is our spot!” to which they replied, “Yah, too bad you’re late. We’re here now!” “We have a ticket!” to which they replied nastily, “Tough S@*t!” There was silence, and boats on either side watched for the outcome.

Jack Hendricks and I shouted, “Ramming speed, Captain!”

People applauded and cheered as the boats left in rapid haste.

Tying the port side of the Gus to the log boom and positioning three couches stem to stern, we planted ourselves to watch the races. The hydros slowly meandered by and waved to us. Later, we heard it was captured on TV. Too bad we couldn’t record the races for ourselves back then.

It was common for people to walk over and through boats to visit friends nearby. When the races started, you could feel the power of those 16-cylinder engines with their invigorating spray as they whizzed by. The whole day ended up one huge party, and it was so great to see the happiness on people’s faces.

Register in advance at https://seattle. surveymonkey.com/r/VXM2PGW. People unable to attend can still participate by viewing the draft maps and submitting a comment at https://www.seattle. gov/redistricting/how-to-participate. For more information or to request interpretation services, contact Elsa Batres-Boni, Elsa.Batres-Boni@seattle.gov or (206) 256-6198. For more information about the Seattle Redistricting Commission, visit http://www.seattle.gov/redistricting.

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BAGELS, FROM PAGE 1 pandemic with pop-up bagel shops becoming popular in the region during the past year and many turning into brickand-mortar stores.

“It turns out it’s an extremely thriving business,” she said.

Darling said she quickly found her niche in that scene, adding that even though she is new to the business, other bagel makers have been kind and welcoming, offering her tips and camaraderie in the process. And even though each bagel maker is trying to make money, they don’t view each other as competitors, Darling said, primarily because bagel popularity is a matter of taste.

Compared with others’, Darling said her bagels are slightly crispy on the outside but have a good chew to them, while other bagel makers go for a crunchier exterior.

With a year behind her, Darling said she is satisfied with her career as a bagel maker. Darling said she cannot call herself a baker because her sole focus is bagels and bagel making a specialized skill. She has no time to venture into other areas of baking because not only are bagels labor intensive, taking two to three days to finish a batch from start to finish, they are also temperamental in nature.

Darling said depending on the day, a batch of bagels will come out beautifully

golden brown, perfectly formed and delicious. The next day, however, even following the same recipe and using the same baking conditions will produce a batch of bagels that are flat, colorless and bland, Darling said. While she doesn’t delight in hearing about others’ oven struggles, it makes her feel better knowing she is not alone.

“Bagels are just hard to make,” she said.

“They’re so multi-layered in their challenges.”

Darling said she is also still growing as a bagel maker and hopes to increase the variety of bagels she sells either as standalones in an order or as the base for her sandwiches she sells at her bagel pop-ups on weekends outside of breweries with other like-minded entrepreneurs.

Darling said she is in no rush to grow her business by taking on an employee or move into her own brick-and-mortar, content, at least for now, to work out of a commercial kitchen in Rainier Valley and operate her online and weekend bagel business without the worry of overhead and payroll. She also values her freedom.

“I like the feeling of working for myself,” Darling said.

To order bagels from Darling, or to see where her next popup will be, people can follow her at https://www.darlingandcombagels.com or on Instagram @ darlingandcobagels.com. She can also be reached by email, christina@darlingandcobagels.com.

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Photo courtesy Christina Darling Christina Darling, owner of Darling & Company Handcrafted Bagels, learned to bake in 2021 after she decided to learn how to make bagels after a trip to New York City got cancelled.

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