The comfort of cream cheese…or burning cheesecake on purpose

When the immediate world around us is literally going up in flames, tsunami waves of thick noxious smoke blanketing the sky, it seems perversely ironic a burnt (on purpose) cheesecake has become food media’s latest obsession, eclipsing the early pandemic darling sourdough. In the Bay Area, a one-man operation based out of Oakland called Basuku–brainchild…