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Article: Dinner Tonight: Fondue pot creates festive communal meal.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2004
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Byline: Bill Daley
There's a story told that cheese fondue began as survival food for early Alpine settlers, who found that stale bread, a wedge of cheese and a dram of wine made for a nourishing and very cheap meal. As a starving college student perpetually low on funds yet always ready to party, cheese fondues became a way to feed many for little.
I would buy the best cheese I could afford, cut it up, put it in the pot and pour in a little bit of whatever plonk was available (using red was a mistake; the fondue turned purple).
Fondue has been in and out of fashion many times since then, but for me the appeal of gathering around a communal pot ...