Science on Screen: Babette's Feast

When you sink your choppers into a favorite food, what is it that triggers your senses to react? Before tonight's screening of "Babette's Feast," part of the Coolidge Corner TheatreScience on Screen Series, food science expert and Harvard prof Guy Crosby will make sense of it all. Gabriel Axel's Oscar-winning metaphor for love follows two sisters in a remote Danish fishing village who care for their ailing father-pastor and his flock, trying to follow Dad's salvation-through-self-denial preaching. - June Wulff, Globe Staff