Huh...

[badstar]

http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Cheesecake.htm

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.

Eating cheesecake is the religious duty of the truly pious Hellenic.

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[brontosproximo.livejournal.com]

Not that I needed an excuse before, but now it's religious too:

http://www.chatilasbakery.com/

[fuego.livejournal.com]

No doubt, somewhere there is at least one Catholic giving up cheesecake for Lent.

Meanwhile, Hellenics are discovering that eating cheesecake is their religious duty.

I am amused.

[brontosproximo.livejournal.com]

Did you see x_bluerose_x's list of hedonistic religious obligations?

I just emailed her and asked her to add: Eat cheesecake to celebrate the Olympics.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

hehehe...no, I will have to look at that

[fuego.livejournal.com]

damn, must be friends only, we're not on each other's friends lists, so i can't see it.

[dragonprince72.livejournal.com]

Well to Catholics anything pagan, including judaism is considered sinful so that makes sense...give up something that is tempting you...that is sinful....I think - and I am not Catholic so I don't know this but I wouldn't be far off as I have a few catholic friends - if a Catholic found the bible too tempting they could get away with giving that up...There are some days I'd like to give up work while keeping the paycheck but oh well