Author

Publication

2008 - Harper Perennial, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

67,500 words, Guess

Page Count

270 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100061562335
  • ISBN-139780061562334
  • LibraryThing6059436
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009277184
  • OCLC Control Number255673764
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780061562334
  • Open LibraryOL23097025M

Classifications

  • LCCGT4987.48 .B39 2008

Alternate Titles

  • Immoveable feast

Description

A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread—and didn't speak a word of French—unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family.Ernest Hemingway called Paris "a moveable feast"—a city ready to embrace you at any time in life. For Los Angeles–based film critic John Baxter, that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his skeptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquet—for eighteen people in their ancestral country home. Baxter's memoir of his yearlong quest takes readers along his misadventures and delicious triumphs as he visits the farthest corners of France in search of the country's best recipes and ingredients. Irresistible and fascinating, Immoveable Feast is a warmhearted tale of good food, romance, family, and the Christmas spirit, Parisian style.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography

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