![]() ![]() These films are almost inevitably humanist in intent, perhaps because sharing a fine meal tends to bring out the best in people. Both of these stories have been adapted into movies, and, indeed, in the cinema there is a thriving sub-genre of gastronomic films, including such remarkable works as Tampopo, Eat Drink Man Woman, and Big Night. Isak Dinesen's classic "Babette's Feast" and Joanne Harris' novel Chocolat are two popular examples. There is no great literary tradition of writing about the pleasures of eating that I know of, although such works exist. However, good writing about sex is comparatively rare the subject lends itself all too easily to cliché and to the modesty of the ellipsis and the paragraph break. ![]() Thus, there are countless works exploring the pleasures of physical love. ![]() Sex provides the writer with the basic ingredients of compelling drama: two people, emotional complexities, action. Food and sex are life's two great physical passions, but for writers of fiction, the latter has always been a much more popular subject than the former. ![]()
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