Categorii: Tot - server - fraud - dinner - wine

realizată de Nicolas Nossa 5 ani în urmă

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TASTE

A tale unfolds around a high-stakes bet involving a knowledgeable wine enthusiast and a host during a dinner gathering. The host challenges the guest to identify the specific details of a wine served, with the stakes being the hand of the host'

TASTE

TASTE AND OTHER TALES

Other chapters

Poison
Birth and Fate
The Leg of Lamb
The Sound Machine
The Way up to Heaven
Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
A swim

Its a book of 16 short stories writed by Roald Dahl in 1979

Roald Dahl- Was a British novelist poet writer borned in Wales to Norwegian inmigrant parents , he served to the Royal air force during the second war after that he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, He starts to write in 1940 books for childs and adults and he turned out one of the worlds best selling authors.

TASTE

Louisse Schofield's

Mike's Wife

Mike Schofield's

HOST

Other books of Roald Dahl -Matilda , Charlie and the Chocolate fabric , James and the giant peach, Ghost Stories

Richard Pratt

President of Epicure

Guest

Guest Wife

PLOT LINE - The Chapter tell us the story of a bet and a fraudulent lover of food and wine who was invited to a meal in a friend house, during the second time of the dinner the host wanted to make a bet with this one guest for him to guess the year country and producer of wine that the hosts wanted to give him to try, the guest asked for the hand of the host daugther in the bet, and this offered two of his houses and the host agreed. During the taste of wine the guest was very quiet, he said what he believed was the producer country and year. until one of the servers noticed the guest fraud and he tells everyone.

MAIN CONFLICT - Its mainly the bet between richard and mike when Mike agrees with the offer of Richard's houses, he is betting his daughter's hand , and in the same way the trap that Richard did to know the information of the wine
the server helped to discover that richard was looking at the place where they were reserved and so he knew the information of the wine that mike gave him to taste, he forgot his glasses in the studio