Austin drummer opens "Rockstar Bagels"

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In the New York groove with Rockstar Bagels
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Austin Drummer fine-tunes his Rockstar Bagels Having toured with bands on and off since the 1990s, drummer and native New Yorker Joe Humel has experienced the rock-star life.
But now he's getting used to the baker's life, getting up early and staying up late making bagels for his newest venture, Rockstar Bagels.
"I always wanted to make bagels," says Humel, 35.
The self-described jack of all trades wanted to break away from touring and start his own business, so in January, he started spending up to 12 hours a day researching bagels online.
In between watching videos and poring over recipes, he would bake batches of bagels in his kitchen, tweaking the recipes until he made a bagel that reminded him of home. "I'm still tweaking all the time," he says, but he's getting busier by the day, filling orders from 15 coffee shops and stores, as well as personal orders via e-mail. He and two assistants are rolling by hand and baking more than 2,000 bagels a week in a small kitchen off West Fourth Street.

So what of the claim that New York's bagels are better because of the city's tap water? "New York has fantastic tap water, but Austin has great tap water as well," Humel says. He's planning on bringing back water from his next trip to New York to do a side-by-side test, but the bagels - which are made with malt instead of sugar and come in plain, salt, poppy seed, sesame, garlic, onion and "everything" - are already a hit with former New Yorkers used to lamenting that Austin doesn't have any good bagels.

Places to find Rockstar Bagels include Summermoon Coffee Bar, Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Blue Dahlia Bistro, Cafe Pacha, Spider House Cafe and Royal Blue Grocery. To order bagels or find out where else to buy them, go to myspace.com/rockstarbagels.

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