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Article: THE FOOD MAVEN; The Cheese Factor; There's Scarce Improving on a Simple Slice Of Well-made New York Cheesecake
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- May 21, 2004
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Goodman, Matthew
Forward
05-21-2004
If you are anything like me, then come late springtime, when Shavuot rolls
around, your mind turns to thoughts of cheesecake. (Of course, if you're
really like me, then you're thinking about cheesecake, on and off, pretty
much all year long.) This is an extremely pleasant line of thought, but it
is hardly a novel one; indeed, Jews have been baking and consuming
cheesecakes on Shavuot for just about as long as there has been cheesecake.
Originally a festival celebrating the beginning of the wheat harvest,
Shavuot eventually came to assume another meaning -- as the holiday that
recalls the giving of the Torah to Moses on Mt. Sinai. With that, it also
came to be the ...