History of the Cheesecake
As every student knows, ancient Greece had great thinkers, great leaders, great
culture, and a pretty neat alphabet that is useful for writing scientific equations
and naming college fraternities and sororities.
The ancient Greeks also had something else that was pretty good: cheesecake.
The earliest records describing cheesecake indicate that it was created on the
ancient Greek island of Samos in the Aegean Sea sometime around 800 B.C.
Even Plato mentioned cheesecake in his writings, and every Greek province and
city-state had its own special cheesecake recipe.
There was even a town near Thebes, northwest of Athens, that was named after
cheesecake.
The lucky athletes who participated in the first Olympic games on the Isle of
Delos in Greece in 776 B.C. ate cheesecakes to build up their energy.
From “The 50 Best Cheesecakes in the World” Larry and Honey Zisman