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Ernest Hemingway called Paris “a moveable feast” — for John Baxter, it became an immoveable one. In this deliciously funny memoir, the Australian-born writer who has lived in Paris for more than twenty years takes on the ultimate culinary dare: cooking a proper Parisian Christmas feast.
Baxter is the least likely man for the job: he was raised on white bread and didn’t speak a word of French when he arrived. What follows is a witty cultural and culinary education — misadventures in markets, battles with recipes, and hard-won victories at the stove — as he tries to prove himself in the world’s most demanding food capital.
Part cookbook, part love letter to France, Immoveable Feast serves up mouthwatering stories about family, tradition, and belonging. Pour yourself a glass of wine and pull up a chair — Christmas dinner will never taste the same — a deliciously funny memoir for food lovers and Francophiles alike.
Ernest Hemingway called Paris “a moveable feast” — a city that welcomes you at any point in life. For John Baxter, it became an immoveable one: a Christmas dinner he could never walk away from. In this deliciously funny memoir, the Australian-born writer who has lived in Paris for more than twenty years takes on the ultimate culinary dare — cooking a proper Parisian Christmas feast.
Baxter is the least likely man for the job: he was raised on white bread and didn’t speak a word of French when he arrived. What follows is a witty cultural and culinary education — misadventures in markets, battles with recipes, and hard-won victories at the stove — as he tries to prove himself in the world’s most demanding food capital.
Part cookbook, part love letter to France, Immoveable Feast serves up mouthwatering stories about family, tradition, and belonging. Pour yourself a glass of wine and pull up a chair — Christmas dinner will never taste the same.
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