A Chocolate Fondue to Remember

Cheese fondue goes back centuries. Food historians point to an ur-version in the “Iliad,” in which a woman “as fair as a goddess” mixes together wine, barley meal and crumbs of goat’s-milk cheese from a bronze grater. But chocolate fondue is modern, invented in the 1960s at Chalet Suisse in New York, by Konrad Egli, a Swiss chef far from home. For years I was convinced that Laura and I had dined that summer at…