I bent my head backward to drink in the stars, and clearly I heard a song so sweet and pure I had to hold myself to keep from breaking.
VOA: special.2009.02.14
So Kitamura encouraged Bell to redesign his bagels--a minor craze in Japan--folding the sweet ingredients into the dough. (A pure New Yorker will not tolerate even minor adulterations, like raisins.) They're flying off shelves in Tokyo and Osaka.