Showing Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas by John Baxter

Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 270 in Publisher: Harper Perennial A witty the cultural and withculinary education. Immoveable Feast is the charming. funny and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white ead-and did not 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 emace 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 farthes...