I see her create beauty and practice her art. When I watch the film, I am in that little kitchen in Denmark.
Once good taste is learned, there is no return. When Babette leaves for a time and the sisters return to their task of dispensing their own unappetizingly brown ale-bread soup to the poor, one old man testily throws his spoon down when served the meal that had been perfectly acceptable before Babette’s arrival.
I especially like the comment referenced below. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson Babette’s Feast, a Fable for Culinary France. Social and religious commentary, women’s studies, food history. The film has been studied through many lenses. We must look inside at chemistry to facilitate magic in experience. Our job now is learn to do that often, and share it everywhere we can. They found a success, an elevated experience, and absorbed it. The curious drinkers and eaters ‘ awakened’ through trial and error. I also marvel at how our traditional food and wine pairings actually evolved. A great deal of this is new ground, so I really relate to Jung’s ‘awakening’ notion. And so it is with food and wine together, we learn more by looking at the chemical interaction. It proves to be an eye opening experience for the entire village.Ī chemist looks inside reactions to understand what’s taking place. Babette wants to repay the sisters for their kindness and offers to cook a French meal for them, a real French meal, on the 100th anniversary of their father’s birth. Her only remaining connection to France is a lottery ticket, and fourteen years after her arrival, she wins. Many years later - their father is now deceased - they take in a French refugee from Paris, Babette Hersant, who is grateful to work as a live-in maid. Their father objected in each case so the sisters end up spending their lives caring for him.
Both had opportunities to leave the village: one could have married a young army officer and the other, a French opera singer. In a remote 19th-century Danish village, two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. time and again, my food and wine mind was dazzled. An evocative portrayal of joy blooming in a seemingly joyless place through wine and food. Based on a story by Danish writer Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) it is a veritable legend amongst food and wine’ophiles. Have you ever seen the beautiful movie ‘ Babette’s Feast’? ( written/directed by Gabriel Axel).
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