It's National Cheesecake Day, so Austin Live is celebrating with some fun cheesecake facts and recipes.

Get a great Sweet Potato Cheesecake recipe here from Finn and Porter at the Hilton.

Facts:

• Cheesecake is believed to have originated in ancient Greece. Historians believe that cheesecake was served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 B.C.
•  However, cheese making can be traced back as far as 2,000 B.C., anthropologists have found cheese molds dating back to that period. Alan Davidson, author of the Oxford Companion to Food, wrote that, "cheesecake was mentioned in Marcus Porcius Cato's De re Rustica around 200 BCE and that Cato described making his cheese libum (cake) with results very similar to modern cheesecake."  
  
• There is an all-garlic restaurant in Stockholm where they offer a garlic cheesecake.
• Cheesecake may be considered an American classic, but they have been popular throughout the ages. Cheesecakes of differing types were popular in ancient Greece.
• Sonya Thomas holds the World Record for cheesecake eating. She ate 11 pounds of cheesecake in 9 minutes.