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The answer may have more to do with New York than you might think.
By Eric Kim
Eric Kim spoke with dozens of New York for this story.
What New York in a New York cheese cake?
Most ardent New Yorkers might say a dreamily smooth and creamy cheesecake layer that’s rich and firm yet somehow light, with some kind of sweet bottom crust. Others might list a set of ingredients: heavy cream, maybe even lemon.
But the answer, in the end, can be the cream cheese: the cream cheese of the philadelphia brand.
Like many New Yorkers, the cheese cake comes from other places, to go through a small transformation in the city. As Gil Marks writes it in “The Encyclopedia of Jewish Kitchen”, German immigrants brought Käsekuchen (“cheese cake”) in the United States in the mid -nineteenth century, however, those first cakes had a cheese base in The villa and a mass of pastry.
While the cheese cake adapted to its surroundings, the cream cheese was traveling, the one that never moved away from the large block. The story says that, in 1872, William A. Lawrence, a chester Blank, N. y. , began to do what he called “cream cheese”, a more creamy edition of Neufchâtel, a friable French ratina in the hope of linking its creation with the Good dairy. Produced of Philadelphia at that time, he named it from the city, the production of the logo has remained in the state of New York to date.
In undeniable terms, the cream cheese of the Philadelphia logo has been a creation of New York.
Five decades later — in the 1930s — Jewish bakers and deli owners in the city started substituting cream cheese for cottage cheese, making the cake a lot creamier. For many bakers still, it’s what makes New York cheesecake New York.
But for Bonnie Ponte and Holly Maloney, the sisters who have Eileen’s special cheesecake in Nolita, it’s not just cream cheese, it’s love (even if food and drug management doesn’t possibly consider an ingredient). His mother, Eileen Averzzano, first moved to New York in Philadelphia at the age of 18, following a dream of adjusting a rockette. But alas, she was too short: “At the time,” Ms. Maloney said, “They didn’t take 5″ 2” rockettes.
After the death of her mother, Mrs. Averzzano began making cheese cakes, promoting them in the grocery store of the queen of a friend and finally opened her store in 1975. When Mrs. Avezzano died in 2018, her daughters were They retired where he left him. Undoubtedly, they are undoubtedly some of the New York outpatient, with tourists, going mass to the small store to like them.
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