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Immoveable Feast
Immoveable Feast | John Baxter
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A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white breadand didn't speak a word of Frenchunexpectedly 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 Angelesbased 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 banquetfor 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.
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Caryl
Immoveable Feast | John Baxter
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1. Books, of course! I especially had fun choosing titles for my sister and sister-in-law from Black Garnet Books in Minneapolis.

2. My family, their caution and love during this pandemic, and our health.

What are you thankful for? @Bookwormjillk @Cathythoughts

#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon

Cosmos_Moon 🥰 happy New Year! 3y
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BookNAround
Immoveable Feast | John Baxter
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Day 17 of #bookadventcalendar. I should have been working on cooking meals for my dad (I cook and freeze meals for his Christmas present) but I‘ve had a migraine all day. @LeahBergen

LeahBergen I hope the migraine is gone! 🤞🏻 4y
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DebinHawaii
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Day 24 #SeasonsReadings2017 #Scrumptious🍲 Giving this little foodie holiday read set in Paris a try, pairing it with a scrumptious Red Pepper & Tomato Soup for a late Christmas Eve lunch. The soup alone is good but I won't lie, it's the Fried Basil Croutons on top that make it so scrumptious. (I won't tell you how many I croutons ate while cooking it!) #toppingsareeverything 😋It's on the blog today for #souoersundays 🍲❤️Recipe link below👇🏻

MinDea That looks delicious! 6y
MinDea I am a HUGE crouton fan. I will be making those! 6y
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DebinHawaii @MinDea Thank you! I had to stop myself from eating all of the croutons from the pan, before they made it on top of the soup! 😋 6y
mhillis Great picture! I‘d love to make this soup! 6y
cariashley This looks amazing! I eat a lot of the Pacific red pepper and tomato soup, and would love to have a homemade substitute on hand. 6y
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DebinHawaii
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Day 7 #SeasonsReadings2017 #EclecticChristmasRead #DecDays #SantasComingForUs 🎅🏼This isn't my most eclectic Christmas book but I put the box with holiday books on a high shelf & it's been too long a day to get them or think much about it. So I give you a foodie holiday book set in Paris I picked up recently at the library bookstore. There's a quote about Santa in it that says even if you don't see him, you should believe he's coming for us.🎅🏼

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DebinHawaii
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Day 1 #SeasonsReadings2017 #ItsBeginning It's beginning to look like my December #TBR stack is out of control & this doesn't include e-books, audiobooks, a review book that hasn't arrived yet & anything else that gets in my way.😱Some transferred over from November, some are started & some won't get read-exceptions being review books, #buddyreads & chapter-a-day. Luckily I just have 2 book tour reviews with set dates which takes pressure off.📚📚

GAustin @DebinHawaii I picked up a Paperback of Everything You Never Told Me tonight. Shhh it‘s a surprise. Gifting myself for Christmas. 🎄 6y
DebinHawaii @GAustin I won't tell! 🙊😆But if you want it to be an early present & in case you didn't know, there's a #litsybuddyread for it going on right now hosted by @Jess7 and @MinDea It just started this week & the first discussion of chapters 1-4 is on Sunday. 6y
GAustin @DebinHawaii thanks for the heads up on the buddy read. 6y
DebinHawaii @GAustin My pleasure. I am reading my chapters tonight. The details can be found on either of their sites or click on the tag. 👍 6y
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DebinHawaii
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#TuneIntoNovember #Overcome Library holds always come in the day after you're there returning books.😬I had to go back today & now I'm overcome with library checkouts-these 2 make it 11 total-that's a lot for me especially with my #TBR stacks & review books. Luckily I'm planning on a quiet reading Thanksgiving weekend. I stopped by the library bookstore & got both the tagged (food. France, holiday) book & my first Murakami for $1🤗#catsoflitsy😽📌

Cinfhen Yay on the Murakami ❣️ 6y
rubyslippersreads Poor Max is starving. Nicky and Sadie sympathize completely. 😹 6y
suvata 1Q84 ♥️ 6y
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Tamra I have yet to read IQ84 bc I have the second part, but not the first. 😬 6y
Centique Amen. That is the truth about library holds! 6y
Dragon 👍👍IQ84 6y
kamoorephoto One day I‘ll get to that book... 6y
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