Cinema's tasty treats Aug 7, 2009
Based on a story by Isak Dinesen, it's about a French political refugee who journeys to a small religious community in Denmark and becomes the housekeeper for two spinster sisters. Babette wins the French lottery and uses the money to prepare an elaborate feast that takes everyone by surprise. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Across a hundred years, a history of living Jul 30, 2009
Undoubtedly the most famous of these bicultural adventurers was Wilhelm Dinesen, father of Isak Dinesen, the author who wrote Out of Africa. . (Forest Republican, WI)
5Top: Movies that revolve around eating Jul 23, 2009
In this adaptation of an Isak Dinesen story, Babette (Stphane Audran) goes to work for two Danish spinsters whose father was the leader of a religious sect that forbade any sort of pleasure. The Frenchwoman dutifully prepares fish soup and brown bread for her employers, but when she wins the lottery, she asks for the opportunity to make a meal for them and for their religious brethren, with whom they have been feuding. (MSNBC -- News)
Book Buzz for Thursday, July 9, 2009 Jul 10, 2009
Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley or Isak Dinesen s I Had a Farm in Africa. Venice is a Fish: A Sensual Guide. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
A travel secret: When in doubt, bail Apr 19, 2009
The hotel was named after Danish "Out of Africa" author Isak Dinesen, who had studied art in Rome. But we would remember it as the dinge-esen, for its gloomy dark hallways. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
* [HARDCOVER: UK] Now you see him, now you dont Feb 22, 2009
Postmodernism in fiction seems to lead largely to dead ends, though Isak Dinesen with her Chinese-box structures of story within story and Borges with his labyrinths and mirrors go on testifying to the possibility of a metaphysical fiction less thoroughly armored against its audience, still attuned to the rewards of surrender. This story has been viewed 283 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
