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Podcast: New Books in Food
Episode: Babetteās Feast
Description: In 1965, Bob Dylan sang, āSheās got everything she needs; sheās an artist; she donāt look back.ā About twenty years later, Gabriel Axel brilliantly dramatized this idea inĀ Babetteās FeastĀ (1987).A film as perfect as a film can be,Ā Babetteās FeastĀ treats the viewer to the pleasures of autotelic endeavors: things we do for their own sake because we enjoy them. Like last weekās film,Ā Big Night, this one welcomes us to a big table in which a chef feeds others as a work of art. Mike and Dan also talk about the charactersā assum...