The pared-down recipe for the Sublime Cheesecake came from my Cousin Shirley, a staunch New Englander and devoted housewife who rarely left the tiny hamlet of Tiverton, Rhode Island. I took it to the west coast c. 1993, where the exact same cheesecake sold at several Los Angeles area coffeehouses for two years, causing an LA Weekly restaurant critic to hail it as unmissable and "sublime." This cheesecake is the moment. r