FONDOS

Use the right cheese. Something smoky that melts well, like a Gruyere or a Swiss.

Use the right dippers. Bread and vegetables work well.

Keep your skewers straight. They’re colour-coded for a reason. Bring kids. Let’s be honest: kids just don’t appreciate fine cheeses.

Play with the fire — it’s warming your cheese.

Double dip. Norm Macdonald’s new memoir (pg. 60) is a beguiling mix of fact and fiction. In the spirit of Norm, former gambling addict and gaming enthusiast, we present the betting odds on the relative truth of some of the claims he makes in print. Norm granted a terminally ill child his dying wish by helping him kill a baby seal.

Norm earned his spot on SNL by offering Lorne Michaels a bag of high-quality morphine.

Norm lusted after Sarah Silverman so aggressively she got a restraining order.