Joys and Colours of my PhD:
Crafting Cheesecakes

I started baking cheesecakes after beginning my PhD. At first, I followed recipes. Then I began trusting my own taste, experimenting and crafting. The most exciting part is always the waiting: overnight, with the constant risk that the cheesecake might crack! But that’s alright, cracking adds some style. Although it spends hours baking, first in the oven, then in the fridge, the morning’s cheesecake is still bare. Tasty, but not enough. Undone. Only with the sauce, the lovely little fruits of similar size, and the mint that seems to come from another world to cheer up the team, along with some eyes watching what the ingredients are up to, does the cheesecake become a joyful cheesecake!