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melted cheese reframed as group therapy, where dropping bread means kissing your dinner partner.
means A communal Swiss dish in which diners dip pieces of bread, fruit, or other morsels into a shared pot of melted cheese (or chocolate, or hot oil) kept warm over a small flame.
from From the French fondue, the feminine past participle of fondre, 'to melt,' which itself descends from Latin fundere, 'to pour or melt down' — a cousin of words like 'fuse' and 'foundry.' So a fondue is, quite literally, 'the melted thing.' The dish is traditionally credited to the Swiss Alps, where the popular tale says thrifty villagers softened stale cheese and hardened bread by the fire through long winters; the modern fondue craze, however, owes much to 20th-century marketing that turned a peasant survival meal into a dinner-party centerpiece.
- swiss rebrand
- 1930s marketing ploy to sell more cheese
- forfeit rule
- lose your bread, owe a kiss or wine
- name origin
- French for melted, fondre
- space cameo
- chocolate fondue served on luxury zero-gravity flights
- swiss icon
- declared the national dish to boost cheese sales
fondue bourguignonne — french cooking method where diners cook meat cubes in hot oil at the table, popularized in france in the 1950s
chocolate fondue — melted chocolate dessert served at the fondue stube restaurant in new york, popularized in the 1960s