ake music lessons from him. There is no clear reason why theyturned down all their suitors. Though there are many possible reasons. The girlsmay not have found the men attractive and suitable to settle down with, maybe theyjust werent interested in men, perhaps their true calling was God and helpingothers, though it could possibly be because their father had told them never tomarry. He told them how love and lust was evil and should be avoided. How it canonly lead to pain, so instead of taking chances they never chose to love. In eithercase they turned down choices to remain with their father and with God.The movie then fast forwards to a stormy night when Babette, a Frenchrefugee, came to them for help. A good friend of hers and former acquaintance oftheirs, Achille Papin, recommended the sisters to Babette. Papin knew the kindnessof the two and knew they would take a stranger into their home, especially astranger in need of shelter and love. In France, Babette had been a world class chef. She loved to cook, it was her passion. When she began to work for the sisters (forfree) she no longer was able to cook gourmet meals. She was only given a budget toprepare dried cod and ale-bread, the staple diet for those who lived in Jutland. Eventhough she could only prepare simple, cheap, and rather unpalatable dishes, shestill put her heart and soul into each dish. Her love of food was apparent if youwatched her cook, she took time to add spices which she picked herself or hadspecially ordered to the corner store to add to the normally bland dishes and madethem her own. The differences in the food was apparent when Babette was unableto cook the soup for one of the elderly followers, so the sisters prepared the dishinstead. The was an obvious look of disappointment on that man when he lookedinto the dish and realized it was not Babette who had made it. Her presence withthe sisters was apparent all over the community...
