On Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 12:23:00 PM UTC-4, KenK wrote:
> A story about fondue on NPR news this morning caught my interest. A very
> very brief Google for recipes seem to indicate it is rather high fat. True?

It's made of cheese, which is rather high fat.

Alternatively, there's fondue that cooks items in hot oil. Probably
not as fatty as breaded and fried food; if you hold a piece of
(for example) beef in hot oil, it won't absorb much.

Finally, there's a style that cooks food in hot broth. Probably the
most healthful of the bunch.

The oil and broth fondues generally are served with multiple sauces
into which you can dip your cooked items.

> Am I missing something very good? I've never tasted it that I can recall.

To oversimplify, it's bread dipped in melted Swiss cheese. Good, but
not life-changing.

> Perhaps a simple recipe?

Fondue is really simple. The hard part is getting the oily
cheese to melt into the watery fluid (usually wine) smoothly.

Here's one:

<http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/02/how-to-make-the-best-cheese-fondue.html>

With a lot of nerdy stuff about the role of the various components. You
can skip down to the actual instructions if you don't like treating cookery
as an exercise in laboratory science.

Cindy Hamilton