{"id":898,"date":"2011-08-18T10:13:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=898"},"modified":"2011-08-18T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T14:13:57","slug":"the-artists-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2011\/08\/18\/the-artists-feast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist&#8217;s Feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34096744@N00\/6053838466\/\" title=\"274\/365: Cantaloupe in the Morning by JDMaleski, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6084\/6053838466_a520c62fff_z.jpg?resize=640%2C463\" width=\"640\" height=\"463\" alt=\"274\/365: Cantaloupe in the Morning\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was inspired to re-read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anecdotes-Destiny-Ehrengard-Isak-Dinesen\/dp\/0679743332\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1313676764&#038;sr=1-1\">Babette&#8217;s Feast<\/a><\/em> after the last post. I found an rather intriguing quote from the story while I was spell-checking names. And, after all, it had been almost twenty years since I last read it. Oh my! Is it ever good to re-read stories that you loved! It is remarkable what you forget and it even more remarkable for how differently the story touches you. Does that make sense?<\/p>\n<p>Tragic Babette &#8212; former head chef of a famous Parisian restaurant finds herself as cook to two elderly Norwegian sisters who prefer split cod and ale and bread soup. After winning 10,000 francs in the lottery, Babette cooks a feast for the sisters&#8217; celebration of what would have been their father&#8217;s 100th birthday. The sisters believe that she has sacrificed all her winnings for their sake. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For your sake?&#8221; she replied. &#8220;No. For my own.<br \/>\nI am a great artist!&#8221; she said. &#8220;&#8230;A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor. We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and then finally<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether the audience appreciates or understands, always pour your best effort into your work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was inspired to re-read Babette&#8217;s Feast after the last post. I found an rather intriguing quote from the story while I was spell-checking names. And, after all, it had been almost twenty years since I last read it. Oh my! Is it ever good to re-read stories that you loved! It is remarkable what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v9Qt-eu","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}