A Fondness for Fondue

"I could write a thesis on the pivotal cultural importance of the fondue set but I won't. It was a talisman and inanimate pathfinder of everything we consider contemporary. This simple cast iron pot with its meths burner and barbed forks stood on the cusp between two societies: one that looked back to the Edwardians for its instructions, and another that looked forward to a new, clean, abstract Elizabethan age."

Table Talk - A.A. Gill