Seafood Bouillabaise. Roshni Gorur, Courtesy of Anderson Ranch Arts Center
When small crocks of seafood bouillabaisse arrive to our table, French chef Babette is plating turtle soup for 12 onscreen. Though the multi-course “Dinner & A Movie” tasting conceived by Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s new food and beverage director Rob Ittner and Ranch Café chef de cuisine Daniel Leon is based on the classic 1987 Danish film “Babette’s Feast,” such precise timing was purely coincidental. (The event menu rearranged courses for American palates caviar-topped buckwheat blini are served as an
amuse-bouche; endive salad with Colorado cherries come before the main attraction and Ittner reassures us at the start that no turtles were harmed during the making of the meal.)