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.