Chocolate Cheesecake Deja Vu

If this looks familiar it's because we already encountered this choco-cheesecake last month.  Our friend Hiro is clearly a cheesecake afficionado and we can count on him delivering on this towards the end of each month.  This is like a vanilla cheesecake molded on top of a dense chocolate one.  The two complement each other well and go great with a cup of java.

The one annoying thing is that the bakers put a cardboard base on the cake which likes to adhere to the  bottom of the cake and makes it difficult to cut. In fact, at first you think that it is part of the cake but soon realize you're trying to slice cardboard. You can see the gashes in the cardboard bottom in the pictures. Once you know what is happening the slicing becomes much easier. Instead of cardboard we suggest they try something edible.

We spent some time discussing the upcoming Brown Commencement.  One of our cake hour attendees was going to be marching with one of the honorary degree recipients - well actually the recipient's representative as the degree was given in absentia.  The honorees ran the gamut from politicians to actors to writers to activists and made for an interesting group.  Congratulations to them!!

Choco-Cheesecake thanks to Hiro.

The original idea was to get a Tira Misu from the East Side Marketplace but they were out.  The alternative - a chocolate cheesecake!   Actually it was a double cheesecake with chocolate on the bottom and regular garden variety vanilla type cheesecake above. The cross hatching chocolate decoration on the top was a nice touch. This cake was good but dense!  It went very well with a cup of coffee and we kept the portion sizes small so we could spread it around. In his last two cake donations Hiro is now 2 for 2 for cheesecakes!  Now what did we talk about besides the recent censorship of South Park which we didn't understand because they had already run the Super Best Friends episode with you know who being one of them!  Sigh, times have changed!

New York Style Cheesecake courtesy of Hiro

Today's cake was a classic New York Style cheesecake. On top were some fresh glazed berries. The cake was creamy, consistent throughout with no added fillings and not especially heavy. It was quite good.

The cake was accompanied by a discussion of whether it is more economical and efficient to fly a corpse to a neuropathologist for autopsy or to fly the neuropathologist to the corpse. Is was speculated that if the corpse could somehow take a seat like any other passenger then the point would be moot. How to accomplish that became a subsequent subject of humor with references to "Weekend at Bernie's".

A following conversation wondered about where all the tuition money paid to a major university goes. Hmmm!! We wonder!