Babette’s Feast
“Digs in to every food-lover’s favourite film. This slender treat nourishes with every page – with never a hint of a recipe.” – Financial Times
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Tag: Ethics
Not all slopes are slippery
Asking where this is all going to end is a very effective means of whipping up panic. But slippery slope arguments are themselves slippery and need to be treated with caution. They force us to take one of two extreme, polarized positions and do not allow anything more nuanced.
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Reasons to be cheerful
If you want to be seen as a profound thinker, just remember the principle: dark is deep. You must take a dim view of human nature and see its prospects as dismal. There may be more money to be made writing upbeat self-help books promising easy happiness, but you will never be taken seriously in self-consciously intellectual circles unless you are unremittingly gloomy or, as such intellectuals see it, unflinchingly realistic.
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Babette’s Feast: the ultimate lockdown movie
The film shows us how lockdown and restrictions on what we can eat are opportunities to appreciate the value of food even more. When we care about what we eat and pay more attention to it, we can achieve more with less.
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A letter to my post-lockdown self
It feels like a time of momentous transformations, but I fear that you, like the rest of the world, overestimate your capacity for change. Please, prove me wrong: restore my faith that we naked apes are capable of learning our lessons.
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