N o doubt you’ve been deluged with cheesecake recipes for the last few weeks. You’re bound to have questions. Here are the answers to five burning cheesecake questions.
Can I Have Cheesecake?
It’s a machlokes.
There is a reason cheesecake has a reputation for being decadent — a single slice tops 300 calories and has as much fat as a burger. (How’s that for a mental image?)
Still no one food is going to make or break your diet. If one day of the year you eat an extra 300 calories it’s not likely to make a terrible difference to your health or your weight (assuming you’re a typical healthy person). So if you’ve been looking forward to your piece of cheesecake all year go ahead and enjoy.
But that’s one day one slice. (In chutz l’Aretz we get pi shnayim.) If you shave a little bit off again… and again… because it’s sitting in front of you and have a slice when you wake up from your nap and have another piece every day after Shavuos because no one else is finishing it — it adds up.
