Madilyn Gibbons’ passion for bagelmaking was born from a craving. Gibbons lives in Milwaukie, the southern suburb between Lake Oswego and Happy Valley; currently, there are very few options for house-made bagels in Milwaukie, if any. So, the Portland food industry vet started making her own. “It just came from the motivation of wanting a good bagel and not having one,” she says. “There’s not really a bagel shop here. There’s Puddletown Bagels, but there isn’t an old school brick-and-mortar bagel shop.”
This year, Gibbons turned her years-long hobby into a preordered bagel business, soon landing at farmers markets and — hopefully next year — a full-blown bagel shop
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