How to eat (fondue)

You didn't know there was a specific etiquette for eating fondue, did you? Nor did I.

My Swiss-French Uncle and my aunt had us over to dinner a few weeks back. They live above Lake Chelan in Eastern Washington. Their house is in the mountains where, come Christmas, the snow sits heavy on the trees and winter makes the land feel like a storybook.

I've never cared for cheese fondue— It's cheese in a communal pot.

BUT. Jean Michele's fondue, the environs and learning how to eat the stuff completely changed my mind.

First, you need day old bread and little cups of cheap and cheerful white wine.

Spear your bread with your fondue skewer, dunk the bread in your cup of white wine wine, dip it into the cheese. Swirl with alacrity.

Swirl and keep swirling until someone else is about to dip their bread into the pot. This holding pattern is to keep the cheese from burning and is considered a responsibility table-wide.

Remove.

Eat.

Things to note:

Should you lose your piece of bread in the pot, you are then obligated to buy the table another bottle of wine. By the time we were done with our dinner, I owed the table a half case.

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