Inside the World Fondue Cup: notes from an Amateur Juror

William Tell, Diplomacy, and Eight Cauldrons of Melted Cheese

I’ve judged many things in my life - witness testimonies, ceasefire violations, the existential fragility of men who call themselves ‘strategic thinkers’ - but never eight bubbling cauldrons[1] of molten cheese in an overheated cave in Tartegnin. That changed last weekend, when I joined the amateur jury of the Mondial de la Fondue, apron on, clipboard i…