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In article >,
(The Bibliographer) wrote:

> In article >,
> ASmith1946 > wrote:
> >Has anyone written (or know) histories of cheese cake
>
> The oldest written receipe for cheesecake comes from the work of Martino
> de' Rossi (d. c. 1468). It first appeared in publshed form in Platina's
> <De honeste voluptate> (Rome, 1470; Venice, 1470). Its next appearance was
> in Giovanni Rosselli's <Epulario> (Venice, 1517, English trans. from the
> 1579 ed., 1598).

That may depend on how you define "cheesecake." "Tarte de Brie" appears
earlier than Martino, but it isn't much like what we think of a as
cheesecake. I don't know Apicius well enough to say if anything in it
could be described as "cheesecake"--perhaps someone else here does.

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