Belinda Hulin - The Everything Fondue Party Book: Cooking Tips, Decorating Ideas, And over 250 Crowd-pleasing Recipes

THE EVERYTHING FONDUE PARTY BOOK

Cooking tips, decorating ideas, and over 250 crowd-pleasing recipes

Belinda Hulin

Copyright 2006, F+W Publications, Inc.

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Hulin, Belinda.

The everything fondue party book / Belinda Hulin.

p. cm. (The Everything series)

Includes index.

ISBN-10: 1-59337-702-9

ISBN-13: 978-1-59337-702-1 (peperback)

ISBN 13: 978-1-60550-314-1 (EPUB)

1. Fondue. 2. Chafing dish cookery. I. Title.

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Fondue Party Book

Dear Reader,

In my family, entertaining came as naturally as breathing. Of course, initially my Cajun parents didn't call their lively soirees entertaining. They just cooked up giant pots of food, called family and friends, and said, Ya'll come. The music, laughter, and eating went on until the wee hours, and it became the soundtrack of my earliest childhood memories.

Later, we moved to suburban New Orleans and my parents joined a neighborhood round robin and had potluck cocktail parties at a different house every month. I was a little older then, and those affairs struck me as so very elegant. The moms on our block got all dolled up; the men told jokes and shared workday war stories; and everyone nibbled on chips, dips, and interesting hors d'oeuvres.

The culinary star of those Wonder Years era socials was the fondue pot usually an enameled vessel of avocado green, poppy red, or harvest gold. Someone always contributed some variety of cheese or chocolate fondue to the table, and the ritual of skewering, dunking, cooling, and eating fascinated me. As one of the adolescents in the neighborhood, I was deemed old enough to help myself to the flame-warmed sauces. My love of all things fondue and my tendency to associate it with good times and fun people were born during this time in my life.

Now, decades later, I've had the great fortune to be able to write about fondue in all its forms as the centerpiece of fab parties large and small. I've had a grand time writing The Everything Fondue Party Book, testing recipes, and building on all my childhood fondue memories. I truly hope the menus will inspire you to fire up the fondue pot and call a few friends and say, Ya'll come!