Article: AT MY TABLE; London Cheesecake, via Newcastle - New York Times

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 ...

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