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Article: Fondue pot flame has burned steadily
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2004
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Fondue pot flame has burned steadily, if not always brightly
By MARLENE PARRISH
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Say "fondue" and you're talking party. There's something festive
about a group of friends and family sitting down together around a
table, dipping food into a communal pot.
Fondue is a food style that drops in and out of popularity. As the
saying goes, "everything old is new again," and fondue parties are
back.
Fondue originated in Switzerland as a way of using up hardened
cheese. In early times, peasants made bread and cheese in the summer
and fall to last through the winter. By midwinter, both had become
rock hard.
In the long, cold Swiss winters it was a good idea to huddle
around ...