Eat, a verb that means to put food into your mouth and chew or swallow. It’s not that easy, there is a whole process in order to get food, whether cooked or not it still has a certain procedure. When we eat, it’s when the body and mind to act as one, emitting emotions that go through a whirlwind and pure satisfaction or distaste could be felt. “We are what we eat”, we are that apple we had for breakfast or that tasty chocolate crepe for dessert. According to Plato, “the soul both pre-existed and survived the body, going through a continual process of reincarnation of transmigration” (Philosophy Online) The state of two parts, a dualism or binary opposition where the mind and body coexist and complete each other in order to gain a full satisfaction …show more content…
The author presented a very exaggerated and magical scene that showed the effect food has on people where “instead of feeling a terrible longing and frustration, they felt quite different” (Esquivel, P241). The extreme frustration doubled more than the time when Gertrudis ate the rose petals, this time piping Chiles heated up the effect. Both authors tried to apply a food-centered philosophy and deconstruct the dualism making body and taste as one focusing on the intake of nourishment each character brings in the plot. Sparks flew in both novels wherein Babette’s feast the guests no longer needed to keep the vow they had as “they realized when man has not only altogether forgotten, but has firmly renounced all ideas of food and drink that he eats and drinks in the right spirit” (Dinesen, P13). Heat is an important factor in having a food-related thought, that sizzling sound, and intensity of feeling, hot chocolate cannot be made without that boiled water, whereas the heat of emotions in our heart cannot be controlled or divided from the mind but without it, we cannot taste the food with our heart and