維特的故事Witt’s story
1912年維特老人出生在美國加州中部小鎮聖塔瑪瑞亞，一直居住在那裡。她年青時就從家族傳承了芝士蛋糕的做法，並一起傳承了香料。一直以來，她熱忠於做芝士蛋糕，她所做的芝士蛋糕在當地及加州受到家庭及朋友們的喜愛。維特老人還是聖塔瑪瑞亞教會一位熱情的志工和虔誠的信徒，為人謙和，心地善良，做事勤快，樂於助人，即使在九十四五歲時，也每天自己開車去教會工作。九十六歲開始，她感覺已經力不從心，就辭退了教堂工作，把自己的住宅，一棟建於上個世紀六十年代的房子捐給了教會，自己住進了一家老人院。 在老人院的日子裡維特老人還堅持為大家做著喜愛的芝士蛋糕，還經常為老人們演奏鋼琴。2012年維特老人百歲生日慶典這天，她親自為來場的300多位來賓，在家人的幫助下用四個小時製作了芝士派，大家為她對生活的熱愛與這麼美味的芝士派表達了敬佩和感謝。幾十年來，鄰里鄉親幾乎都嘗過維特老人的芝士蛋糕，維特手制的芝士蛋糕在聖塔瑪瑞亞小鎮聲名遠播。
維特芝士蛋糕口感細膩柔滑，入口後多重美味在舌尖次第展開，層次分明又互相交融，尤其與咖啡相配，那種感覺有一種神聖的寧靜，令人沉浸其中，寵辱皆忘。這種芝士派每次只可以吃幾口，過分貪吃不僅暴殄天物，而且會使味蕾麻木，失去品嘗的美感。曾經在歐美很多國家遊走，每當坐在咖啡店時，總要點一款芝士蛋糕或芝士派。在奧地利，比利時，法國，義大利，瑞士，德國，捷克，土耳其等等國家老城街道邊，可以品嘗到豐富多彩不同口味的咖啡，但以芝士蛋糕來說，還沒有吃到過比維特老人更好的。
維特老人還參加過電視臺舉辦的大洛杉磯地區家庭食品製作比賽，她的芝士蛋糕獲得一等獎。她把自己積累一生的芝士蛋糕手藝技法，言傳身教手把手傳授給了家族後人。經維特老人家族同意，維特芝士蛋糕由ONEEYEGIANT的創始人傳承製作。
2014年8月，維特老人平靜地辭逝，享年102歲。現在，每當面對芝士蛋糕製作時，老人慈祥的面容就會浮現眼前。這樣的美味應該讓它傳承下去，使更多的人品嘗鑒賞。
In 1912, Lady Witt was born in a small town in central California, USA, Santa Maria. And she has been living there all her life. When she was young, she inherited the unique cooked way of cheese pie from her family and passed on to a kind of secret spice oil. She has always been hot for making the best cheese pie which has always been welcomed by the locals, her families and friends. Lady witt was also an enthusiastic volunteers and devout believers in Santa Maria church. She is modest, kind-hearted, diligent, and ready to help others. Even in her 90s, every day, she wants to drive by her own to work in the church. When she is 96 years old, she started to feel powerless and then she dismissed the work of the church, donated her own house which was built in the sixties of the last century to the church. After that she was admitted to the home for the elderly.In the elderly home, Lady Wit also insisted on doing her favorite cheese pies. And she often played the Piano for the elderly. In 2012, Lady Witt, on her 100th birthday celebration day, she, under the help of his families, made the cheese pie in person within 4 hours to treat the 300 guests. Everyone on the scene expressed their admiration and gratitude for her love of the life and that delicious cheese pie. For decades, the folks and neighborhood almost all tasted lady Witt’s unique cheese cake. Her handmade cheese pie in Santa Maria town had a lot of reputation.
Witt’s cheese cake has fine silky texture, enjoying a multiple delicious in the sequence of the tip of the tongue expansion, structured and blended with each other, especially matched with the coffee. That kind of feeling has a sacred tranquility, immersive and hate are forgotten. This cheese cake each can only have a few bites. Being wasteful and too greedy will make the taste buds numb, loss of taste of beauty. Once walking in many countries of the Europe and America, sitting in a coffee shop, people always would like to order a cheese cake or cheese pie. In Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and other countries of the old city street side people can taste different flavors of coffee, of rich and colorful. But as for cheese pie or cake, no one else did eat the better pie than the Lady Witt’s.Lady Witt, in 2005, she also participated in the television host of the Greater Los Angeles area family food production of the game. Her cheese pie won the first prize. She passed her accumulated cheese pie craft techniques, secret balm modulation, on to her family descendants. The Lady Wit and her families agreed her that the Witt Cake sent to the ONEEYEGIANT for a special heritage making.
In 2014, August, the Lady Witt quietly died, at the age of 102. Now, when faced with cheese pie making, the old lady’s kind face will come to the eyes. I think this delicious flavor should be passed down, so that more people can taste and enjoy the unique feeling of appreciation.