Article: Top cheesecake stands on own eggs

Delish, 544 N. Wells. 670-2600. Cafe Selmarie, 2327 W. Giddings. 989-5595. Cheesecakes, 2841 W. Howard. 465-6733. Food historians suggest that the first mention of cheesecake was in 1440. However, Demosthenes, Aristophanes and Socrates all left notes on the subject, and one of the best of the earliest cooks - Cato, the philosopher - delighted his fellow Romans with a recipe for cheesecake that was rich in cheese and honey, thick with eggs, and flavored with poppy seeds. Also, the Greek historian Athenaeus wrote exhaustively about this splendid dessert.

Ancient Sicily, too, was famous for its cheesecake: cassata a la Siciliana, a type of cheesecake made with sponge cake, sweetened ...

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