Melting Pot's Fondue of Foodies Tweetup

Although I've been writing on this blog since 2008, I've only recently joined the world of Twitter in the past year.  Although Twitter can often be overwhelming with information (and perhaps a bit distracting at times), I've exchanged a lot of useful information about cooking, restaurants, fashion, celebrity gossip and local events from Twitter.  Overall, I find Twitter to be a really great forum to share ideas with people with similar interests and to interact with my blog readers on a more personal level.  The strange thing about Twitter, however, is that there are some individuals that I "tweet" with on a regular basis yet I have never actually met them in person!

Last night, however, I was lucky enough to be invited to the Melting Pot's tweetup, which got a lot of fantastic local food tweeters in the same room.  I got to see some of my favorite food bloggers but I also got to meet some people that I have shared many tweets with but haven't had the opportunity to meet until last night!  Throughout the evening, we chatted about our jobs, our blogs, and some of our favorite restaurants.  We also got to indulge in some delicious fondue treats provided by the Melting Pot.  This included a variety of cheese fondues, including a spinach artichoke cheese, fiesta cheese, Wisconsin trio cheese and traditional Swiss cheese fondue (as pictured below).

Each cheese fondue was accompanied by bread, celery, carrots and tortilla chips to dip with. 

There were also dessert fondue options and my favorite was definitely the melted milk chocolate with chopped peanuts. Although the strawberries, graham cracker crusted marshmallows, and brownies were all great to dip in the dessert fondues, I think the Rice Krispie treats provided the best texture.

In addition to the house white and red sangria and local Nantucket Triple 8 blueberry vodka, I was really excited to try out Apfel Eis from Harvard's Still River Winery.  I spoke with Margot, one of Still River Winery's proprietors, and she told me all about this fantastic local apple ice wine.  I learned that there are over eighty apples in each small dessert wine bottle and despite its sweetness, there is absolutely no sugar added to the wine. 

The wine was absolutely refreshing and at Margot's invitation, I am definitely going to make a visit there this fall to learn more about their wine pressing process and of course, wine tasting!

Overall, I had a great time meeting some new people, along with catching up with some familiar faces such as Michelle and Alicia.  These two lovely ladies have some really personal and inviting food blogs and I urge you to check them out.

I want to thank the lovely folks at the Melting Pot for getting such a great group of local food writers together to indulge in some cheesy and chocolate goodness.  In addition to generously hosting this event, the Melting Pot also provided a gift certificate which makes a return visit something to look forward to.

The Melting Pot has multiple locations throughout the country and three locations in Massachusetts.  Their Boston location can be found at the Park Plaza Hotel at 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA.