Karen Blixen - Isak Dinesen home

• Cast, crew and description by Siff Cinema
  
• 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

• "Deeper Down in the Domain of Human Hearts" by Maire Mullins
  
• "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.
• 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)
• Cucina Verite: Babette's Feast by Gail Shepherd

Film reviews and discussions


• Babette's Feast: a meticulously prepared French meal by Bob Brown
• The Discovery of Meaning in Babette's Feast by Wanda Avila
• A recipe for mourning by Esther Rashkin
  
• Babette’s Feast: The Generosity of God by Robert A. Flanagan
• 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
• 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
• "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

• Review by Glen Erickson for Savant Review
• DVD review by Dawn Taylor
• Review by Rita Kempley
• Review by Eva at SIU

• Review by Delahoyd
• Dinner and a Movie by Alonso Duralde
  

 
Photos


• 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. Photo: Maarup Kirke, film and 3D model, photo by Markus Rogawski
  

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