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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. John Baxter was entertaining with a conversational writing style, but you still manage to feel smarter after you finish reading it. If you are a connoisseur of food and wine, then this book is an excellent choice. He dissects the idea of a French family and weaves their similiarities with all families anywhere in the world into a delicious meal of literary genius.  kategreer | May 22, 2009 |  The witty recounts of an Australian writer who follows his girl-friend to France and makes a Christmas dinner for his future in laws. Good explanations of the food, but the French family he described is not the average French family - most French families are a lot less religious than the one he describes, so do not take his story has a true French Christmas family dinner. Keep in mind that the insights he shows are with only one French family. (  ) Mitsou | Apr 13, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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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 Angelesbased 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.
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