To my eyes the atmosphere was entirely benevolent, the audiences enthusiastic, the weather perfect and the only problem for a novelist would be how to make plausible a festival dinner at which a dozen young sommeliers stood on a stage tasting the sponsor's wines and describing them in French to a largely English-speaking audience.
Season the soup well – do this in stages, tasting between each addition of salt and pepper – and add the chopped parsley.
Leon Major's direction moved and arranged a well-populated stage with taste and style and only a nudge or two of slapstick.
Smell was dominant at the cooking stage, and taste was the most important sensation while eating the food.
The New York Daily News staged a taste test.
But after playing on college basketball's greatest stage and tasting the disappointment of not advancing beyond the first round, we won't lack any motivation.
It is the venue where, 10 years ago this week, Woakes made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against West Indies A, having by that stage already tasted the Test match experience when, the previous summer, he and his fellow academy players were roped into helping the groundstaff during the epic 2005 Ashes Test.
Therefore, Forbes decided to stage a tasting of our own to see if Craggy Range well and truly produces better wines than its peers.
Should you find yourself in Paris this Saturday with nothing to do, Mr. Patanacce will be staging a tasting of wines from California, Italy, the Loire Valley and Beaujolais.
And this led to talk of other restaurants that, like Romera, presented diners with expensive, stage-managed tasting menus, involving many dainty courses and scant choice.
