A Historic Peek at the Other Cheesecake - by Mark Woeppel

A Historic Peek at the Other Cheesecake - by Mark Woeppel: "There are two kinds of cheesecake. One stimulates the taste buds. The other arouses the imagination. Both are a feast for the eyes, yet it's not difficult to determine which came first. A Greek writer is often credited with recording the first basic recipe for cheesecake in about A.D. 230, while there is evidence that cave dwellers who appeared long before recipes were invented may have outdone even the trail blazing Julia Childs.

We know that the art of storytelling began with the cave dwellers. We know this because we know what happens even today when people sit around a campfire: they start telling stories. They munch on pork rinds or popcorn and they share adventures-real and imagined-and eventually break out the graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate, create colossal s'mores, and everybody taps into the delusion that they are kids again at sleepover camp."