Know Your Cheesecake!

Cheesecake is believed to have originated in ancient Greece.

History has the first recorded mention of cheesecake, as being served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 B.C.

But cheese making can be traced back as far as 2,000 B.C., anthropologists have found cheese molds dating back to that period.

The Romans spread cheesecake from Greece to across Europe. Centuries later cheesecake appeared in America, the recipes brought over by immigrants.

In 1872, cream cheese was invented by American dairymen, who were trying to recreate the French cheese, Neufchâtel.

James L. Kraft invented pasteurized cheese in 1880, and that lead to the development of Philadelphia cream cheese, the most popular cheese used for making cheesecakes today.