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Article: Familiar fondue pot finds fans in the '90s
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 9, 1996
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Fondue pots are making a comeback. The metal and ceramic pots
that back in the 1970s were the wedding present of choice are once
again showing up on the eating scene.
I saw one recently in Locust Point, the Baltimore neighborhood
widely known as the home of Fort McHenry, birthplace of the national
anthem. There in the Hull Street Blues, a bar and restaurant made by
joining two row houses, a handful of well-dressed and mostly
well-behaved adults skewered pieces of bread and dunked them into a
white ceramic fondue pot.
In the pot was a cheese fondue, a hot mixture made with lemon
juice, white wine, grated Gruyere, Emmentaler and Appenzeller
cheeses, a little flour and a little kirsch. The ...