P.O.R.N. Diets

I am coining this term as I feel some of the diets out there are so radical they need to be discussed in one place.

We here from our favorite celebrities daily and some of us live for this. We follow them on Twitter, talk about them on Bebo and MySpace or e mail each other about them especially when a new diet is talked about.

There have been some over the top radical diets in the past like the 'Air diet', not a very popular one for obvious reasons unlike the 'Chocolate' diet. Then there is the more main stream 'Atkins' diet or 'The Dash Diet' or even 'The South Beach Diet'. All have there plus and minus points and their advocates and nay sayers as well.

The trick when it comes to diets if there is a trick in selecting one would be to thoroughly research the topic. The mere fact that there literally are thousands of diets commercially available shown on television, billboards or even your local Chemist shop.

Here will be many, many articles pertaining to the topic of P.O.R.N. Diets circulating our media and your opinion on them is most welcome. Maybe you have been on one and would like to praise it or maybe warn others away from it. Whatever you may like to share, diet related, please do.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Cheesecake And Its History

By Dan Ruso

This article is about: cheese cake recipes

Cheesecake is a great dessert for many occasions and events. It has many good aspects.

There are many cheesecakes to choose from today. It ranges from very simple to very complicated cheesecakes. This list includes the new york cheesecake, chocolate cheesecake, fruit cheesecake, and so on.

There are also more creative, exciting cheesecakes like the tiramisu cheesecake, cinnamon swirl, turtle, and one of my favorites, white chocolate mocha cheesecakes.

What many people don't know is that this dessert was just as popular at the time it was originally created, even been offered to appease the gods.

The history of the cheesecake can be traced back 2000 years. Originally the cheesecake was made by the ancient Greeks.

This unnamed dessert was originally served to Olympians in the original Olympic games. This was in 776BC on the Isle of Delos.

They were served in smaller sizes to the cheesecakes of today, and were seen as a good source of energy for athletes who needed to be replenished.

The Romans eventually did conquer the Greeks, and with the conquest, they adopted much of their culture. They began to implement this dessert in their own diet, calling it placenta (also called Libum).

The earliest "recipe" we have of the placenta was written by Marcus Porcius Cato, the Roman politician.

The simple recipe was:

Crush 2 pounds of cheese in a mortar. Then mix with 1 pound of bread wheat flour.

After adding one egg, the final step is to cook in a hot fire.

Romans often offered food to household and temple gods.

Roman temple gods were often gods like Jupiter, the ruler of the gods, who had their own temples where sacrifices were made. Household gods included on the likes of Janus and Vesta, who guarded the door and hearth, the Lares, who protected the field and house, Pales, who watched over the the pasture, Saturn, controlled the sowing, Ceres, the watcher of the growth of the grain, Pomona, who dealt with fruit, and Consus and Ops, the overseers of the harvest.

The Romans, who believe their gods brought them success or failure, brought many sacrifices.

The Romans used our modern day cheesecake to sacrifice and appease their gods. This was a very important dessert for them.

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