Create a perfect night out by gathering friends and family around a pot of warm melted cheese, chocolate or a cooking style eager to add flavor to your favorite dipper. The Melting Pot dares you to Dip Into Something Different with this collection of recipes from our fondue to yours.

Fondue is back, bigger and better than ever, popping up in kitchens everywhere! Rick Rodgers presents more than fifty sensational recipes that combine the newest tastes with traditional favorites, creating versatile and mouth-watering fondues that will thrill fondue lovers. Rediscover the pleasure of cooking food at the table with your friends and family as contemporary flavors and ingredients -- roast garlic, fresh ginger, sun-dried tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, and espresso-are stirred into today's fondue pot. This is great food that is simple to make and perfect for entertaining. If you love the classic cheese version, try dipping cooked shrimp or artichoke hearts into Italian Fontina and Porcini Fondue; or vegetables and apples into Gorgonzola, Port, and Walnut Fondue. Dunk focaccia or Italian salami into Sun-Dried Tomato Pizza Fondue, bite-sized cubes of bread or even chicken breast into Classic Swiss Fondue, made with three cheeses for a deliciously authentic masterpiece. Meat lovers will go for Fondue Bourguignonne, where chunks of table-fried meats (or poultry or fish) are dipped into a variety of quick-to-make sauces. Serve boneless leg of lamb with Balsamic Vinegar-Mint Sauce or turkey breast with Cranberry-Lime Mayonnaise. Many Asian cuisines have their own versions of fondue that are popular choices for communal meals. Known as hot pots, they're an exotic mix of ingredients in a special savory stock. Try the famous Japanese version, Shabu-Shabu, with paper-thin slices of beef and a sesame dipping sauce, or the Classic Chrysan themum Hot Pot, composed of a variety of meats and fish to be dipped in a soy-sherry sauce. For the confirmed dessert fanatic, nothing will please the palate more than sweet and rich tastes from your fondue pot. The choices are intoxicating-fresh strawberries, pineapples, and cherries, and chunks of pound cake can be swirled into Classic Chocolate Fondue. A sinful concoction of peanut butter and milk chocolate is made to be savored with bananas or brownies. And who can resist dipping a cookie or two in Venetian Espresso Fondue? Intense in taste and flavors, innovative in form and preparation, fondue is the way we want to eat today.

The best ways to enjoy the world's most famous melted cheese Surprise your friends and loved ones with a creative and delicious Swiss cheese fondue! Whether you serve up a mixture based on goat's cheese, a "moitié-moitié" (half-and-half) flavored with whole-grain mustard or a fusion of bell pepper and grappa -- a new culinary experience awaits. Jennifer and Arnaud Favre are the founders of the Compagnons du Caquelon, an association of fondue lovers in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. The success of their annual fondue festival encouraged them to share their passion in this book.

A collection of more than 250 traditional Southern recipes from Mama Dip's Kitchen, a restaurant in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller In this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip. Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun…then gets really hard, and not much fun at all. You might be in a Dip—a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it’s really a Cul-de-Sac—a total dead end. What really sets superstars apart is the ability to tell the two apart. Winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. If you can beat the Dip to be the best, you’ll earn profits, glory, and long-term security. Whether you’re an intern or a CEO, this fun little book will help you figure out if you’re in a Dip that’s worthy of your time, effort, and talents. The old saying is wrong—winners do quit, and quitters do win.

From its earliest days, Women & Infants Hospital has been a unique collection of people, disciplines, and talents. Its patients and staff reflect the rich ethnicity of many different neighborhoods and heritages.

In this much-anticipated follow-up to her bestselling Mama Dip's Kitchen, Mildred "Mama Dip" Council serves up an abundance of new recipes for home-style Southern cooking that is sure to please. From catfish gumbo to breakfast pizza and peach upside-down cake, Mama Dip's Family Cookbook offers recipes for more than three hundred dishes, including many Council family favorites. Also featured are party and celebration foods for family and community gatherings--a reflection of Council's belief that friends and family are essential to a rewarding life. To help novice cooks, Council includes basic information about staple ingredients, kitchen utensils, and important measurements, as well as diagrams for setting up a buffet. In a charming introductory essay, Council intertwines food-related reminiscences of her rural North Carolina upbringing with a wry recounting of her experiences since the remarkable success of her first book. With this book she passes along to new generations the practical advice and wisdom that have made her a treasure to her family and her community.

#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars gobbling up meals at full-service restaurant chains, inspiring Todd Wilbur to change his focus from cracking the recipes for convenience store foods to cloning the popular dishes served at these sit-down stand-bys. Wilbur's knock-offs, absolutely indiscernible from the originals, are selected from national and regional chains, many drawn from a list of the top ten full-service restaurant chains, including Houlihan's, Red Lobster, and Pizza Hut. Also included in this savory cookbook is a special section devoted to dishes from hot theme restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, and Dive! Recipes include: Applebee's Quesadillas; Denny's Moons Over My Hammy; Bennigan's Cookie Mountain Sundae; The Olive Garden Toscana Soup; The Cheesecake Factory Bruschetta; T.G.I.Friday's Nine-Layer Dip; Pizza Hut Original Stuffed Crust Pizza; Chi-Chi's Nachos Grande, and many more!

Enjoy 300 easy and delicious fondue recipes perfect for any meal of the day with The Everything Fondue Cookbook. Now you can-do fondue right in the comfort of your home with these 300 decadent and delicious fondue recipes. The Everything Fondue Cookbook offers countless meals for every occasion. Including tips and tricks for how to pick the right pot to choosing the perfect cheese for your meal, this book has everything you’ve ever wanted to know about creating the perfect fondue for any time of the day. This exceptional cookbook offers instruction on preparing: -Starters, such as Sesame Beef Appetizer -Lunch and dinner fondues, such as Breaded Red Snapper -Desserts, such as Creamy Caramel Fondue -Breakfast fondues, such as Ham and Cheese Fondue -Healthy choices, such as Dieter’s Fondue

What’s a party without a dip or two? Renowned cooking teacher, caterer, and author Rick Rodgers shows how to please a crowd with Dip It!, a collection of dips and dippers perfect for any occasion. From old favorites to new ideas, Dip It! contains 75 recipes sure to be instant crowd pleasers. Rodgers gives a twist to classics Like: Real Onion Dip Guacamole Two-Alarm Salsa. He offers treats for contemporary tastes, such as: Sicilian Sun-Dried Tomato Dip Dilled Shrimp Spread Curried Chicken Dip And he teaches how to make homemade dippers, including: Rainbow Vegetable Chips Cilantro Pita Toasts Curly Corn Chips Here, too, are ideas for perking up sandwiches with zesty spreads like Classic Hummus and Olive Tapenade. With something for every occasion, Dip It! offers the skinny on dipping.