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Fondue is a popular desert treat that is very popular across Europe and North America. It essentially is the procedure of dunking fruit, food or meats into a cheese dip or chocolate dip. The name Fondue comes from the French word fonder, which means to melt. It is a communal dish that is often shared between many people. Persons will put the food on a stick of a special fondue forks. From here they dip it into the fondue pot. The pot will have semi liquid chocolate or cheese and this is kept in its current state because of special alcohol burners. The most popular type of fondue is cheese, but chocolate finds itself as number one when it comes to desert and other sweet type of foods.

Fondue was created many centuries ago in Switzerland. It developed as it originally was a communal dish. It also was based on different food preservation methods that existed at the time. Switzerland has very strong winters and people would need to carry their food over from one season to another. Bread and cheese would become stale and hard. To make it more edible, families would gather around a Fondue Pots and melt the cheese and dip the bread into it to make it more edible and tasty. This was carried over from generation to generation and resulted in fondue that we know today.