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Article #254: Fondue - Types Of Fondue And Restaurants That Serve It

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Several years ago, I worked for a company Fondue Bourguignon, on the other hand,
that had a corporate office in Belgium, was a French creation. Born out of
and some Belgian employees came and necessity, a medieval monk by the name of
visited our local office on a business Johann du Putzxe came up with the idea.
trip. As I was chatting with one of them, He worked in the vineyards of Burgundy
the subject of fondue came up. I and needed a convenient way to have lunch
offhandedly mentioned this favorite while he harvested the grapes. A pot
fondue restaurant of mine, and raved filled with hot oil set nearby where he
about the delicious chocolate fondue could dunk & cook tasty morsels of meat
dessert. while he worked was the solution.
Across his face came a look of Today, there are several different kinds
incredulous horror. He had the same of fondue sets available on the market.
expression I must have had when I saw There are burners that are heated by tea
spam sushi in Hawaii for the first time. lights, butane, alcohol & electricity.
For him, the only proper fondue was For cheese and chocolate fondue, a
cheese fondue, and a chocolate fondue was traditional pot called a caquelon is
just a wrong, unnatural thing. Any used. This is typically made from ceramic
notions of Americans being a savage, or earthenware. An enameled iron or
uncultured and decadent people must have copper pot is used for Fondue
been confirmed in his eyes. Bourguignon.
Nevertheless, we have chocolate fondue, If you don't want to deal with the mess
and I am forever grateful for it. and hassle of making fondue at home (the
Specifically, we have Konrad Egli to fondue pots can be difficult to clean
thank, a Swiss(!) chef who created it for after a meal), there are many restaurants
New York's Chalet Swiss restaurant in that specialize in fondue that you can go
1964. He had earlier already started to to. My favorite, La Fondue in Saratoga,
popularize the more traditional fondue California, is whimsically decorated,
through his restaurant by featuring both with a romantic, slightly gothic ambiance
the cheese style and the method of that looks like the kind of place La
cooking meat cubes in hot oil (Fondue Cirque du Soleil would go to for lunch.
Bourguignon). Many styles of cheese fondue are
Well, with the introduction of the available, such as Mediterranean
chocolate element, the craze really took (cheddar, beer & sun-dried tomatoes) and
off. Fondue became a popular menu item at Stinking Rose (Swiss, wine & garlic). For
American dinner parties throughout the the Fondue Bourguignon, exotic meats such
60's and 70's, and is starting to become as wild boar and ostrich are offered, as
popular again. well as tasty dipping sauces.
Fondue originally came from the mountains The chocolate fondue, though, is to die
of Switzerland, where poverty-stricken for. Along with your choice of chocolate
peasants had little to sustain them (milk, bittersweet or white) and
except for Gruyere cheese, bread loaves flavorings (Amaretto, Irish Cream and
and lots of wine. Poor peasants. Making others), you can dunk in pieces of
do of these meager ingredients, they snicker bars, marshmallows, strawberries,
combined them to create what became the apples, bananas & sponge cake.
traditional fondue, melting the hard Bring a large appetite when you come
cheese with the wine in a communal here, so you have room for all the
earthenware pot, and taking turns dipping delectable courses.
the bread into the tasty mixture.






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