Benjamin: Yeah. I have a fancy for some wine tonight. Can you recommend something for me?
Waitress: Our red wine is very famous. I'd suggest you try that.
Benjamin: All right. What kind of red wine do you serve?
Waitress: Here are a variety of red wines for you to choose. You can have a taste then make your decision then. Here is the wine menu.
Benjamin: The dry red wine looks quite good. I'd like to try this one.
Waitress: Then do you like any cheese to go with it?
Benjamin: Why? Do I have to order that?
Waitress: Oh, no. But cheese is the best thing to go with red wine. And we have really fresh cheese which will be free if you order red wine. Here are the pictures. Pick out something you like.
Benjamin: That's really nice. I'd like this one. It looks very attractive.
Waitress: What would you like for appetizer and dinner?
Benjamin: Croissant for appetizer and two beef steaks for dinner.
Waitress: How do you want your steaks, rare, medium or well-done?
Benjamin: Medium, please?
Waitress: Anything for dessert?
Benjamin: Sure. We'd like to have Black Forest Cake for dessert.
Waitress: OK. Please wait for s while. We'll get it done quickly!
Waitress: I'm a waitress in a western restaurant. My job is to take the customers' orders. The key to doing a good job like this is to recommend the right thing to the right people. Today, there was a couple who came for dinner. The husband wanted some wine. So I told him that our red wine was very famous and also cheese was the best thing to go with it. They took my advice and had a fancy dinner.
生词小结
fancy n. 喜好
croissant n. 牛角面包
medium adj. 适中的
well-done adj. 熟透的
Material 语素
Grape Wine
Grape wine is the second beverage in the international market, only next to beer. At the present, the grape wine already becomes the pronoun of wealth, fashion and personal status. Grape wine is well know to be beneficial to people's health, but how to choose, drink or store grape wine is a knowledge. There is a wonder: how the grape wine gets its color, since almost all grape juice (even from the black grapes) is basically colorless. The secret is letting the skins soak in the juice during fermentation.
Cheese is one of the world's oldest food products in human history, although no one knows exactly how long people have been eating cheese. Nutrition basically is all about good eating habits, good foods for you, and that includes cheese of course, for it provides protein, essential daily vitamins, and of course energy. If there is one real cheese country in the world, it's the Netherlands, which is the world's largest exporter of cheese.