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How Do You Like Your Cheesecake?

Photograph from sabotrax on Flickr This week is the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates the Jews receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai. The holiday is perhaps most famous for its connection with eating dairy foods, a tradition whose origin is usually traced to a line in Exodus (3:17) that refers to Israel as a land "flowing with milk and honey." It is fitting, then, that one of the most prominent dairy foods Jews eat on Shavuot is cheesecake, one of the greatest expressions of the beautiful marriage between sweetness and cream....

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22 Comments | Posted by Jamie Forrest, June 10, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Tagged: cheese, cheesecake, New York cheesecake