David Tamarkin

Different episode.

But you can see the natural progression from cheesecakes that were made with ricotta, quark, to those that were made with cream cheese.

And what happened, some European bakers came to the States, especially to New York.

German bakers, a lot of German Jewish bakers were bringing this style of cheesecake over, and then cream cheese was invented, and then...

Game on.

You know, incorporating the cake.

And then the New York-style cheesecake was invented.

So, I do think that, of course, New York did not invent the cheesecake, but New York did invent New York-style cheesecake, meaning they invented the cheesecake made with cream cheese.

So you're like the kid who like just scrapes off the frosting and eats only the frosting.

But in this case, you're like scraping off all the cheesecake and just eating the graham cracker crust.

There's an easier way to eat graham cracker crust.

Yeah.

You know?

I mean, that's a great segue into like the modern state of particularly New York style cheesecakes because it's,

Pretty rare that you see someone eating one that's just, like, the plain vanilla-specced slice of cheesecake.

Now, they all... They have fruit toppings.

They're marbled.

They have... There's Oreos in them.

I mean, they have really gone wild.

And of course, a water bath is meant to prevent exactly that from happening.