The origins of cheese fondue are sketchy and unlikely to ever be established with any certitude. Wheeled out regularly as a prototypical example of cheese, wine and a binder is Book 11 of Homer’s Iliad (800 BCE). Here is the translation of the relevant passage by Samuel Butler:
”…The woman, as fair as a […]
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The history of cheese fondue, Part I
Fondue cruises on Swiss lakes and the Rhine
Festival des Fondues on Lake Geneva. www.cgn.ch runs fondue cruises on Lac Leman twice weekly until June 11, 2010. Chinese fondue is served on Thursday nights, and cheese fondue on Friday. Departures are from Geneva, and Morges and Lausanne in Canton Vaud, between 7 and 8 p.m., returning between 10 and 11 p.m.
Fondue […]
Indian cooking classes at Rasoi, Geneva
October 30 and 31 and November 27 and 28, 2009. Chef Anupam Banerjee of the gastronomic Indian restaurant Rasoi by Vineet (in Geneva’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel) is giving cooking lessons. Rasoi means kitchen in Hindi, and the establishment is a signature restaurant of Vineet Bhatia, the Michelin-starred Indian chef at the exclusive Rasoi Restaurant in […]
Worlds largest turnip festival, Richterswil (ZH)
November 14, 2009. Since 1905, the Raebechilbi has been a major autumn event in the lakeside town of Richterswil. In 2000, the Guinness Book of Records immortalized its 1998 parade featuring 24 tons of white turnips and 40,000 candles.
Not only do paraders carry hollowed-out white turnips with lit candles inside: all the […]