Article: Recipe Fashionable foods Cheese Fondue

If you've never given a fondue party then I suggest you do. It's a great way of breaking the ice and making people do drinking forfeits if they drop their bread. Some people don't like cheese, so I guess you could do a meat fondue, with boiling oil in the pot. But I find you can't get the oil hot enough and the meat comes out grey and stewed rather than toasted with caramelised edges.

My first fondues were done as a student, in my slow cooker. If you can ignore the aesthetics of having a dirty great orangey-brown 1970s slow cooker on the table, complete with its plastic beige housing, then you're OK. But if you can't, then invest in one of the super trendy, designery fondue pots that are ...

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