National Cheese Fondue Day
Melt together fine cheeses, butter, and wine and enjoy with your choice of breads, meats, or even veggies on the delicious National Cheese Fondue Day.
Drive April cheese and wine sales by positioning fondue as an accessible, shareable dining experience for home entertaining and restaurant promotions.
- Fondue night at home: curated cheese & dipping boards for entertaining
- Restaurant fondue specials and wine pairings for April
- DIY fondue kit promotions—cheese, bread, and accessories bundles
- Throwback to Swiss tradition: the 1875 recipe that started it all
Fondue has been around as a concept for hundreds of years, but cheese fondue is generally recognized to have come into existence in 1875 when the original recipe was published.
Before then there was a dish called “fondue,” but it was more like a scramble, as there were eggs and sometimes truffles (no, not the chocolate kind!) mixed in.
While the newer concoction had the two ingredients we see on this day, there was an issue because the sauce was continually trying to separate, requiring extra time and care to make the dish. However, right around 1905 cornstarch was introduced to Switzerland, and solved that problem quite handily.
And thus was cheese fondue created. You can dip bread into it, of course, but also popular are veggies like gherkin pickles, garlic cloves, olives, onions, and more.
Some prefer fruits like grapes for a lighter repast. Generally, the fondue is cooked on a stove and then poured into the fondue pot itself when it’s served at the table, where the dipping begins.
While National Cheese Fondue Day does seem to be tied mostly to a marketing promotion through the restaurant chain The Melting Pot (based in North America, almost entirely in the United States) you can absolutely celebrate this wonderful food all by yourself, or with friends!