Stateside Podcast: "The Dish" serves up EK's Cheescakes

By Mercedes Mejia,

Published April 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM EDT

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Kinsler-Holloway pours honey ricotta cheesecake batter over graham cracker crust in a springform pan. “I think texture is very important with cheesecake and we do a really good job with that as a base,” he said.

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The Dish, Stateside's spinoff podcast for Michigan foodies, met up with Eric Kinsler-Holloway, the baker and businessman behind EK's Cheesecakes.

More than a decade ago, Kinsler-Holloway turned to baking as a way to rebuild his life after several run-ins with the law. He's since turned his life around, and runs a humble but thriving cheesecake bakery based in Milan, a city of about 6,000 people in southeast Michigan.

Read his full story below:

How EK's Cheesecakes became a second chance

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