"I credit this recipe with launching me as a "food person" about 5 years ago, since then I have went on to cook hundreds of other great items from the FN site. This is the grandaddy of them all.

Thanks Alton! Stop in for turkey any time dude.""

"Well, like everyone else I saw that the dry to wet ratio was way off on the shell dough, so I kept adding butter to my processor until the dough looked correct to me. basically I doubled the butter from 2 tablespoons to 4 ! Then the dough came out very good. AND I drained the cheese for 3 days not one hour. A word to the wise when using FN re"

"Well, like everyone else I saw that the dry to wet ratio was way off on the shell dough, so I kept adding butter to my processor until the dough looked correct to me. basically I doubled the butter from 2 tablespoons to 4 ! Then the dough came out very good. AND I drained the cheese for 3 days not one hour. A word to the wise when using FN re"

"I have been making cheesecakes for years but this is my first time doing this one. The recipe is flawless, it came out perfect. I substituted in some dark brown sugar to add a deeper flavor. It came out so good I got a peck on the cheek from one of the nice old ladies at work. I even posted some baking photos on my FB page.

A word to the wise from a cheesecake master: The two most important items are the water bath in the roasting pan and the cool time in the oven after.