When was the first Cheesecake?!


Question: Cheesecake is believed to have originated in ancient Greece. Historians believe that cheesecake was served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 B.C. However, cheese making can be traced back as far as 2,000 B.C., anthropologists have found cheese molds dating back to that period. Alan Davidson, author of the Oxford Companion to Food, wrote that, "cheesecake was mentioned in Marcus Porcius Cato's De re Rustica around 200 BCE and that Cato described making his cheese libum (cake) with results very similar to modern cheesecake."

The Romans spread cheesecake from Greece to across Europe. Centuries later cheesecake appeared in America, the recipes brought over by immigrants.


Answers: Cheesecake is believed to have originated in ancient Greece. Historians believe that cheesecake was served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 B.C. However, cheese making can be traced back as far as 2,000 B.C., anthropologists have found cheese molds dating back to that period. Alan Davidson, author of the Oxford Companion to Food, wrote that, "cheesecake was mentioned in Marcus Porcius Cato's De re Rustica around 200 BCE and that Cato described making his cheese libum (cake) with results very similar to modern cheesecake."

The Romans spread cheesecake from Greece to across Europe. Centuries later cheesecake appeared in America, the recipes brought over by immigrants.

No idea. And who cares.

Yummm... Cheesecake...

http://www.thedessertcafe.com/home/tdc/p...

I hope this link helps

What? Eaten? Made? What?

Now I would kill for some black cherry cheesecake...tut!

a long long time ago

i do not know, i just know it's yummy

Junior's, Brooklyn New York!!!!

cheesecake making can be traced back as far as 2,000 B.C.

Gosh
And I was there
gray matter is failing me
1068 or 1268
It was such a fine party
(ps ;;; that was the last time I got laid,,, ED you know)..?
edit
2000BC was just yogurt..
gggg grandma x 1.6K told us they did not have Gram crackers to make the crust,,, just sea shells..

it was the year 1237... it was dark and raining outside

30th June 1962 @ 11:20am





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