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means A communal dish of melted cheese (often with wine and garlic) kept hot over a flame, into which you dip bread on long forks.

from The word 'fondue' comes from the French 'fondre,' meaning 'to melt,' and first referred to the cooking technique itself rather than the dish. Melting cheese with wine to stretch scarce or hardening cheese stores is an old Alpine practice, but 'fondue' as a named dish was popularized and standardized in Switzerland in the 20th century — notably promoted by the Swiss Cheese Union as a way to boost cheese consumption, which helped turn a rustic farmhouse fix into a fashionable dinner-party ritual worldwide.