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Babette’s Feast (Denmark, Gabriel Axel, 1988). Denmark, in the late nineteenth century. A French refugee from the Franco-Prussian war surprises the quiet, puritanical residents of a small village with her sublime cooking. Based on a novel by Isak Dinesen. (In Danish, Swedish and French with English subtitles)

Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) (Mexico, Alfonso Arua, 1992). In the tradition of magical realism, a tale of forbidden love and the power of food to communicate the deepest emotions and wildest impulses of the cook to everyone who eats what she prepares. (In Spanish with English subtitles)