Are you a man of few words?

Answer 1

By all accounts, eating the melted-cheese dish of fondue is a Swiss tradition. Numerous references agree
that cheese fondue originated high in the Swiss mountains, the product of thrifty Swiss cow herders who
spent long hours in the snow-covered pastures with sparse provisions.
Like the American cowboys of the Wild West, the Swiss herders used what they had to sustain them, in
this case an abundance of cheese products, loaves of bread and bottles of wine to help ward off the chill.
As days passed in the field, no scrap of cheese was spared the caquelon, or earthenware cooking pot,
and every hunk of bread was made moist and tasty by dipping it into the molten cheese mixed with wine.
The dish made its way from the fields onto the tables of the Swiss aristocracy by way of kitchen servants
who prepared the simple dish with the nobles’ finer quality cheeses and wines and served it with the
house’s fresh assortment of crusty breads.
No one seems to be able to give an authoritative account of how the original Swiss dish came to be called
by a French name. Back online, there were plenty of definitions: the American Heritage Dictionary says
the name comes from “the feminine past participle of fondre, to melt;” the Chef Talk Glossary says fondue
means literally “to melt” in French.
A trip into virtual Switzerland netted tones of information about the country’s history, culture and
geography but no substantial historical documentation on the origin of fondue. However, a few facts about
the nation and its neighbors stood out enough to make some logical deductions. So, here it goes.
It’s commonly accepted that fondue made its way from humble beginnings in the Swiss hills to the tables
of Swiss nobles by way of house servants. The dish, which became a Swiss mainstay, no doubt was
served when the nobles entertained visiting nobles from Switzerland’s bounding neighbors – Austria and
Liechtenstein on the east, Italy on the south, Germany and France on the north, and another section of
France on the west. Somewhere along the line, the French, known for their penchant for naming all things
culinary, must have coined the phrase in order to describe the dish to their countrymen. The dearth of
information on fondue in Virtual Switzerland makes it clear that the Swiss have no interest in naming
dishes; they’re just into creating great cheese.
France, however, is very much involved in the cuisine scene. In fact, it was the French gastronome Jean
Brillat-Savarin who is credited with bringing fondue to the world. Escaping the French revolution, Brillat-
Savarin spent two years in the United States. To support himself he gave language lessons and played
the violin in a New York theater orchestra. His love, however, was gastronomy. He introduced Americans
to a cornucopia of epicurean delights including French ice and fondue au fromage. He eventually
authored three gastronomic tomes that are still in use today at culinary schools around the world

Answer 2

Yes. I'm always telling everyone how much of a man of few words that I am! It's difficult to get me to say much. I was telling a stranger just the other day that I'm a man of few words. He kept looking at his watch while I was telling him about the fact that I am a man of few words. He must have been so interested in me telling him about the fact that I am a man of few words that he was timing me so that when he recounted the story to others about the conversation that he had had with me in which I was telling him about me being a man of few words that he could give them the exact time of the duration of our conversation! Yeah, that must have been it! I'd go into more details but I don't like to talk all that much.

Answer 3

yes i am a man of a few words

Answer 4

Actually yes

Answer 5

Yes, no ,maybe i don't know i might be. How can i tell. Is it easy to know. I think i am. When do you need to know? Wait i know-- no i don't. What was the question???

Answer 6

nah. I'm a woman with a lot to say, and so much more on my mind.

Answer 7

Only every other Wednesday.

Answer 8

F U

Answer 9

yes and no

Answer 10

yeah