Basque burnt cheesecake is a great dish that needs to be the only dish on the table. Next to a classic New York cheesecake done with strawberries, in front of three judges who have eaten thousands of cheesecakes, it loses on the most ordinary metric there is: comfort. Hers was the cheesecake of the audience's grandmother. His was the cheesecake of a New York Times trend piece. The trend piece lost.
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