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.

--New York Times Book Review

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/23/2008
ISBN: 9780061562334
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.90w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Booklist 08/01/2008 pg. 22
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2008 pg. 851
Publishers Weekly 08/25/2008 pg. 65
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2008 pg. 56