TASTE
dinner BABETTE
At the end of the nineteenth century in a small village in Denmark, two elderly women living sisters. The son of a Protestant pastor, after the death of the latter, have inherited the leadership of the local religious community by rejecting the marriage proposals and choose to live a frugal life and no luxuries. One day he appeared at their door, exhausted, the Parisian Babette Hersant, escape the accusation of being a revolutionary.
Babette is hosted for fourteen years by two elderly ladies, thanks to the letter of an old suitor of one of the hospitality and earns by a housekeeper and contribute to charities.
A day to get to Paris Babette win big money: 10 000 francs. Everyone believes that Babette will use them to return to France, but she humbly asks to be able to dedicate a room to the memory of the centenary the birth of the shepherd, the father of Martina and Philippa. The villagers, followers of a life free of earthly pleasures, will literally seduced and intoxicated by lunch and Babette, a great time to cook, wanted to organize again show his talent as an artist. To get the ingredients, beverages, glass and dishes, without telling anyone Babette has spent all his money. Only the old general, an old love with one of two sisters, disbelief can understand the real economic value of the meal.
Here is a short song that features the deep meaning of this magnificent gesture of the protagonist, namely that concerning the time when she was asked if he will return to Paris:
"At the end of another long silence Babette he suddenly grinned and said:
" How could I return to Paris, Mesdames? I have no money. "
"You do not have money?" cried the sisters, as with one mouth. "No," said Babette.
"But the ten thousand francs?" asked the sisters, gasping in horror.
"The ten thousand francs were spent, Mesdames," said Babette.
The sisters took their seats. For a minute I could not speak.
"But ten thousand francs?" Martina whispered slowly.
"What would you, Mesdames," said Babette, with great dignity.
"Lunch" for twelve at the Cafe Anglais will cost ten thousand francs .....
"Dear Babette," he said gently, "you were not to give away all they had for us."
Babette wrapped his master in a deep look,
a strange sight: there was, at the bottom of it, pity and perhaps ridicule?
"For you?" said. "No. For me."
He rose from the log and stood to her sisters, standing. "I am a great artist," he said. He waited a moment, then repeated: "I am a great artist, Mesdames."
Then, for a while, there was a deep silence in the kitchen.
Then Martin said: "And now you will be poor all my life, Babette?"
"Poor?" Babette said. He smiled as if to herself. "No.
I'll never be poor. I said that is a great artist.
A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor. We have something, Mesdames, of which others know nothing. "
And here is the comment by Francesca Sartori
(which I got from here:
http://www.culturaspettacolovenezia.it/index.php?iddoc=927)
"The film is an extraordinary vision of the concept of what is and what it will be. The theme of the vocation is in fact central to the plot, and is confronted by the figure of all the players."
(summary Plot taken from wikipedia)
ANATOMY
anatomical level, in humans, there are three different types of taste buds, which contain specialized cells in the reception of flavors.
These papillae have an elective provision, in fact, one third of the tongue are the fungiform papillae, the central part protruding flare, in the posterior third are the circumvallate papillae at the front of the terminal sulcus of the tongue, and placed on the side, there are leafy buds.
The taste system is able to distinguish five basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, sour (or acid) and spicy
It is seen that the afferent fibers, that is, neurons that connect receptor cells with central nuclei, are differently sensitive to various types of stimuli, so that each afferent fiber responds best to a given stimulus (eg sweet) but can be excited by other, albeit with a higher threshold. This is a typical characteristic of the various sensory systems. From here we understand that each afferent fiber receives information from various taste buds and that different information is conveyed to higher centers where central neurons, comparing the various stimuli, decipher the feeling.
stimuli from the receptors are carried by the chorda tympani (VII), the glossopharyngeal (IX) and vagus (X) to the bulb, the nucleus of the solitary tract. From here they are conveyed to the thalamus, the ventral posteromedial nucleus, so gustatory cortex.
How we perceive the taste papillae
live only about ten days, and are subject to constant change. Their task is to analyze the nature of the substances in food after they are dissolved in saliva. The contact with different substances generate different impulses reaching the brain, where the flavors are perceived and recognized. Our awareness allows us to perceive taste: sweet, sour, bitter, pungent and salty. To each of these tastes is a specialized area on the tongue
Food The primary goal is to nourish the tissues and organs of the body. According Chinese medicine, food, solids and liquids, handle it according to their taste (sweet, spicy, salty, sour, bitter) and their nature (hot, warm, cold, cool, neutral). Warm and hot foods are yang, those are cool and fresh yin foods are neutral in the middle position and therefore more balanced.
Thanks to their "taste" and "nature", any substance or food that feeds specifically that organ. In health condition is good to eat all the flavors to benefit equally to all bodies, so they are all strong and are mutually balanced.
In particular:
(1) balcony of the sweet feeds Spleen, which contains the stomach and spleen / pancreas, so it stimulates the spleen, stomach, oral cavity, taste.
(2) The hot feed that contains the lodge Lung lung and large intestine, so it stimulates the lungs, intestines, colon, skin, hair, smell.
(3) The Salty nourishes the loggia of the Kidney, who has kidney and bladder, so it stimulates the kidneys, bladder, bones, teeth, hearing.
(4) The Bitter nourishes the loggia of the Heart, which contains the heart, master of the heart, triple heater and small intestine;
then it stimulates the heart, small intestine, the complexion of the face, the blood.
(5) The acid eats The loggia of the Liver, which contains the liver and gall bladder, so it stimulates the liver, gall bladder, vision, eyes, nails, muscles, etc..
When a person tries so marked a kind of flavor, this indicates already an instinctive need to feed a given function / body weakened.
For example, a person whose cells do not get enough glucose (and therefore has an excess in the blood, that are diabetic) will lodge a function of land that is weakened and the spleen / pancreas hypo-functioning. In practice, this explains why it is particularly attracted to the sweet taste. Of course, the example serves to simplify the concept. In fact there are many other forms hypo-cellular glucose / hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia, which, without setting up a disease clinically diabetic, attributable to the weakness of this and join the search instinctive sweetness. Other
example, a person who seeks out the salty taste and has a problem of hypotension-hypertension or adrenal disorder.
This research tells us and then a weakness but no weakness that must be filled this need favoring "distorted." Rather, when the imbalance is very slight, the demand for a certain flavor to be indulged because it strengthens the body weak, when the imbalance is chronic, however, the whole body is rebalanced second a sequence of priority that is determined by
medical expert acupuncturist or TCM.
The excesses of flavors
... In fact, the Chinese medicine, abuse or excess of a flavor feeding damages the energy of the body and organs.
(1) The excess of sour taste - acid damages the liver, because it brings hyper-energy body, and depletes the energy of the spleen (acid triumphs on the cake) and also damages the heart energy.
The symptoms are: anger, loss of skin elasticity, muscle cramps, mild anemia, gastritis, constipation, anxiety, poor appetite, mental instability.
(2) Excess of bitter taste causes damage to the heart because an overload of energy, weakens the lungs (the bitter triumph over spicy) and the skin, bones and disperses the energy of the kidney, increases the energy of the exaggerated stomach.
symptoms are palpitations, arteriosclerosis, angina pectoris, loss of appetite, gingivitis, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, constipation, menstrual disorders, decreased libido, decreased visual acuity.
(3) Too much too sweet taste fills the spleen and stomach, as the sweet triumphs over salty, will be depleted kidney energy, making it painful bones and brittle hair, also will disperse the energy of liver and reduce the lung.
The symptoms are: gastritis, ulcer, sadness, difficulty breathing, skin problems, sexual impotence, and bone problems, muscle weakness, high blood pressure.
(4) The excess energy gets too hot taste of the lungs, damaging the liver, since the triumphs spicy acidity damages the heart energy and, therefore, the mental energy.
The symptoms are: bleeding skin, brittle hair and skin, decreased libido, mental confusion, muscle cramps, anemia, gastritis.
(5) The excess of energy consumed salty taste impairment and weakens the bones, because the salty sull'amaro triumphs, the energy of the heart will be stifled and slowed blood circulation, spleen and stomach, and weaken the muscles.
The symptoms are: tinnitus, headache, fluid retention, dizziness, fatigue.
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