The 125 Best Fondue Recipes
- Fondue creates an opportunity to sit down with friends or family to enjoy a leisurely, congenial...
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Fondue creates an opportunity to sit down with friends or family to enjoy a leisurely, congenial meal. Ease of preparation and unique flavors and ingredients are some of the elements that have combined to make fondues a key food trend in recent years. A revival of interest in the last 5 years has given way to a whole new legion of exciting recipes.
The 125 Best Fondue Recipes will appeal to both new and old owners of fondue pots. The recipes go far beyond the traditional cheese and chocolate fondues. A range of "hot pot" style recipes using broths and hot oils are shown in order to cook meat, seafood and vegetables. Wild Mushroom & Wine and Chinese Hot & Sour are just some of the innovative broths. Tempura Vegetables will be a lovely accompaniment to any meal particularly if it is paired with Sesame Salmon with Florentine Sauce. Cheese fondue gets an innovative spin with such recipes as Gruyere & Emmenthal with Roasted Garlic or Swiss Cheese & Bacon. For desserts, Dark Chocolate with Coconut & Walnuts, Lemon, or Tia Maria are just some of the decadent recipes featured.
This fondue cookbook also offers a history of fondue around the world and even fondue fables. Did you know that if a fork touches the metal of the pot, a man must buy a bottle of wine and a woman must kiss another guest?.
Low fat recipes are provided as well as a list of fondue "do s and dont s" along with ideas for family fondues and how to create the right ambience. For the new or experienced fondue maker, The 125 Best Fondue Recipes will be a valuable resource.
In addition to more than 125 great fondue recipes, there are 15 delicious sauces. These wonderfully delicious accompaniments are created to accompany many of the main meal recipes. 192 pages, softcover.
Ilana Simon is a respected and experienced food writer and editor. This is her second cookbook.
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The 125 Best Fondue Recipes
- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Robert Rose; 2001-10-06
- Label: Robert Rose
- Studio: Robert Rose
- ISBN: 0778800377
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 12 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #12271
Avg. Customer Review:
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: A poor fondue book - limited vision, limited recipes 2008-02-26
Comment: This book would get 2 stars, but, at this price, one really can't complain.
However, if you're looking for interesting recipes, but are perhaps somewhat harder to find ingredients for, see "Fondues from around the world" instead, also sold from Amazon.
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Here's what's good about this book:
1) easy, accessible (in terms of finding the recipe in the book, and obtaining ingredients), recipes.
2) cover's various styles of fondues ... but I expect that out of any devoted fondue book.
Here's what's flawed:
1) This is a 125 *best* fondue recipe book. There are many recipes in this book explicitly designed for kids, as if parents don't know what their kids like, or that kids have a discriminating (perhaps picky though) palate? These are simply wasted pages. It's like finding a watered down mac and cheese recipe -several times- in your shiny new cookbook, which, in this case, happens to be titled, *best* fondue recipes...
2) limited vision: most of the cheese fondue recipes (for example) are exactly the same: same cheeses, etc., with 1 or 2 different final ingredients. These could have easily been collapsed into one recipe, saving space for something more novel, for example, in the cheese section.
3) Each recipe comes with a little "serve with" section, but these parts are clearly hurried, and unresearched. Most of the cheese recipes are "serve with bread" etc. Nothing most readers won't already know. This section should state something more interesting: like trying the brie fondue with *pear* wedges (my suggestion)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Fondue Just got more tantilizing!!! 2008-02-15
Comment: I was not big on Fondue till I got this book. The recepies are easy to follow and are great tasting. I have looked through several fondue books prior to purchasing this one. If you had to get just one book that has it all....this book does that and much more. Fondue has taken on a whole new meaning thanks to this book!!!!
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fondue gone Wrong 2007-03-14
Comment: I was looking for good classical fondue receipes but found this book full of off the wall asian receipies and other things one wouldn't normally associate with fondue. I'm sure they are all very nice but for a basic fondue book it would not be my choice and it is expensive for what it is.
4 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Fondu book 2007-01-11
Comment: When I purchased my LeCruset fondu pot, there was a wonderful paperback
recipe book beside it. Sadly, I thought the price was too high...and
based on the reviews at Amazon I purchased this book. Its paper is
not as nice, its presentations (pictures) are not as nice...and it
won't lie flat. With this type of cooking, I think it is nice to have
the better pictures and presentations...and the more expensive book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: The 125 BEST Fondue Recipes for beginner to pro 2007-01-09
Comment: This fondue book is so great! It gives simple and plain instructions and ingredients along with a great choice of all types of fondue's. I love it so much that I have purchased three as gifts for other fondue lovers.
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