Ina Garten’s bagel slicing is so wrong it’s right

I felt a wave of confusion when I spotted a strange phenomenon in my social media feeds: It seems that Ina Garten is “stirring controversy” over her “bizarre” bagel-slicing technique.

The concept simply did not compute. When it comes to anything in the kitchen (or really anywhere), whatever Ina says to do is absolutely, definitionally correct. Our job is to simply acknowledge, with Mandalorian-like certainty, whatever pearl of wisdom that the sage known as the Barefoot Contessa has shared with us: “This,” we say, “is the way.”