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Baxter, John, 1939-

Immoveable feast : a Paris Christmas / John Baxter.

1st ed.

New York : Harper Perennial, ©2008.

xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

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. 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.--From publisher description.

Baxter, John, 1939- -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Paris.

Christmas -- France -- Paris.

Cooking, French.

Christmas cooking -- France -- Paris.

Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.

Paris (France) -- Social life and customs.

Paris Christmas

A good tooth -- Stranger in a strange land -- George -- Ninety degrees of Christmas -- The food of love -- The servant problem -- The ghosts of Christmases past -- Oysters -- Thank heaven for little girls -- A dissertation on roast pig -- All in the mind -- Apples -- Cheese -- The grip of the grape -- Does Madame burn? -- Bread -- The right way to walk -- The spice box of earth -- Christmas Eve -- The ghost of Christmas present -- Green Christmas -- A sense of place -- Project piglet -- Simple gifts -- Getting it together -- à table! -- The dinner -- Washing up.

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