In the beginning there was fondue

The local paper did a history of fondue. The first recorded recipe was found in Zurich in 1699. I had always suspected that fondue was poor peoples’ food, but the story said no, because for years the best Gruyere cheese was exported with Lyon being one the largest purchasers.

Now, having a fondue, is one those wonderful Swiss stereotypes regardless of the section. French, Germans and Italian Swiss along with foreigners living here, consider it just one of those wonderfully social things that without life wouldn’t be quite as nice.