Gracious Reader,
In the 1987 Danish film and Oscar winner Babette’s Feast, based on the 1958 novel by Isak Dinesen, Martine and Filippa are the two beautiful and talented daughters of the local Protestant minister, an austere man with whom they live in small-town Denmark.
They both fall in love—Martine with a Swedish officer, and Filippa with a world-cla…