Karen Blixen - Isak Dinesen home

• Library annotation of film, cast and description
• DVD edition of Babette's Feast with audio tracks in English, Danish, French, Spanish
• Story summary and discussion by Valerie O'Connell
• Key lines from the film by David Schimpf
• A 75-minute one-act opera, Babette's Feast, debuted in the United States on November 11, 2005, at Cohen Studio Theater on the campus of the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. Written by Irish composer John Browne and librettist Jane Buckler, the performance was directed by Sandra Bernhard. The production was first staged by England's Royal Opera Company in 2003.


Story reviews and discussions

• "God Loves a Joke: Babette and Vocation" by Pamela Schwandt, Word and World magazine
• "Kierkegaard at Babette's Feast" by Jean Schuler
• Southern Nazarene University class papers

Recipes

• Recipes from Babette's Feast: an article by Leah A. Zeldes
• Hints for serving up Babette's Feast by Bross*
• Caille en Sarcophage: cheftochef.net and mydigitalkitchen.com
• Recipes for Babette's Feast by T.W. Lapereau
• Menu and comments by Phaedrus
• Photos by Roche LeCompte of preparation of a Babette's Feast (NakedLunch.com)

• Commentary only: "The 'Feast for the Arts' is a feast for the senses" by Cathy Salter
  

Film reviews and discussions

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• Hungry Souls by Thomas Hibbs
  
• A recipe for mourning by Esther Rashkin
  
• Babette’s Feast: The Generosity of God by Robert A. Flanagan
• Review by Jim Shepard
• Review by Steven D. Greydanus
• Summary and Discussion by Fr. Peter Malone, MSC
• Film as Theological Text by Rev. Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
• Meridian magazine of the Latter-day Saints review by Karl Bowman and Jonathan Walker
• Food for the Soul by Ludwig Nelson
• Babette's Feast: A Fable for Culinary France by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
• Commentary by Camille Gangelhoff

• "Babette's Feast": Feasting with Lutherans: by Mary Elizabeth Podles. [This fine essay on the artistic themes in the film is slightly marred by its opening sentences. Contrary to what Podles says, Karen Blixen's doctors never found that she had "the late stages of syphilis."]
• "Babette's Feast: A Religious Film by Wendy M. Wright
• Current Trends: Feasts of Grace" by Mary Ann Fatula
• "The Feast of Spiritual Healing" by Lauren Heideman
• "Surprised by Grace" by Rob Baker
• "The Feast as Utopia: Theological Dimensions of Feasts in

The Brothers Karamazov and Babette’s Feast by David Schimpf
• Additional links and commentary by David Schimpf
• Analysis by Ed Schroeder
• A short discussion in relation to feminism

• Review by Glen Erickson for Savant Review
• DVD review by Dawn Taylor
• Review by David Dalgleish
• Review by Scott M. Keir
• Review by Rita Kempley
• Review by Jeanne Richard
• Review by Eva at SIU

• Rotten tomatoes: a list of links to film reviews
• Commentary by Vaughn MacDonald
• Review by Delahoyd

 
Photos
• Photo of the diners
• Photos at Independent Film Society (ifs.com)
• Photos: Themed dinners at Fays Home Cooking
• The site where Babette's Feast was filmed:  Maarup Church at Lønstrup in the north of Denmark. The area is south of the beach resort of Skagen, and west of the town of Hjørring, on the large western peninsula of Denmark known as Jutland.

Restaurants

• Acworth Georgia (Atlanta area)

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