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Article: Cheesecake always has a following These are different, but still worthy
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 8, 2005
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There are few words that make people salivate more easily than
"cheesecake," and I'm not talking about the pinup. Even those without
a pronounced sweet tooth (I include myself in that number) can muster
an appetite when cheesecake -- a dessert that straddles sweet and
salty -- is on the menu.
Dishes that have long been part of human history speak most
forcefully to us. Small pastries baked with cheese and honey were
said to have been served to victors in the first Olympic Games
centuries ago.
But cheesecake as we know it is a more recent phenomenon, a legacy
of Jews from Germany and, to a lesser extent, Eastern Europe, as they
spread throughout the world, taking culinary customs with them.
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