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Article: The ultimate in comfort Melted cheese soothes the soul
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 23, 2002
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Quite often the comfort foods we crave when times are worrisome
have some kind of melted cheese as an ingredient. In some dishes,
it's the star.
We can thank the occasional poor aim of English sportsmen for
Welsh rarebit--melted cheese on toast, the dish that is eaten for
supper when the hunter comes home empty-handed without a rabbit.
The Swiss were the first to dip cubes of crusty bread into melted
cheese blended with seasonings and wine to make the first cheese
fondue. The word fondue comes from the French word for "melted."
Less well known is the Swiss Alpine cheese supper called raclette.
The winter dish consists of cheese, pickles, potatoes and onions. The
traditional way to make it ...