Is a Chef an Artist?

A chef can be an artist just like a musician or a painter is.  However, a chef can combine the use of visual and culinary art to make their food.  Many chefs in fancy restaurants are seen displaying dishes that have all of this fancy decorations around them.  in this case, even without eating the meal, you can see that the chef did a good job.  Also, when you taste the food, the chef manages to combine unique flavors to create the final product.  This is why in Babette's Feast, Babette is able to make her food look good, as well as taste good.  She put nearly as much time into preparing the actual food as she did preparing the way the food would be displayed.

Babette's Feast Theme (Isolation)

Isolation plays a critical role in the short story, Babette's Feast.  The setting is a small and isolated village of Puritan people living a very simplistic lifestyle.  The people believe in common Calvinist philosophies like a large dedication to the Church.  In addition, they live in a way that isolates themselves from the sins of everyday life.  For example, when Babette prepares her elaborate feast, none of the people acknowledge the taste and smell of the food.  They isolate themselves from pretty much anything enjoyable on the earth, as well as from any other society around them.  They remain dedicated merely to the church, and isolate that as the main activity of every day.  For these reasons, it is clear that isolation is a common recurring theme in Babette's Feast.

Home Food Remedies

When I get sick, there's nothing better to heat than some hot soup.  In my opinion, chicken noodle soup and chicken tortilla soup are the best.  They both give you protein, and the heat helps warm you up and makes you feel better.  My comfort food is actually quite the opposite.  I like mint chocolate chip ice cream, because it helps to cool you down, and the cold helps to soothe a sore throat.  I sometimes eat this when I'm sick, but I prefer to eat it as a comfort food, instead.