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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. 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Intrigued by Gascony since traveling there on assignment for a cooking magazine, McAninch persuaded his wife and young daughter to move to an unprepossessing village in the Gers--Gascony's agricultural heartland--and attempt to live as the Gascons do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcAninch sets out to master ultratraditional Gascon dishes, like wine-braised duck legs, \u003cem\u003epoule au pot\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003egarbure \u003c\/em\u003e(a meaty peasant soup), and cured duck breast, and rustic yet exceedingly hard-to-pull-off desserts, including the formidable hearth-baked confection known as \u003cem\u003egâteau à la broche\u003c\/em\u003e. He provisions his meals at the weekly market; imbibes the inky local wines; immerses himself in Gascony's history and folklore; and takes part, occasionally at the cost of his pride, in such local rites of passage as the pigeon hunt, the wine harvest, and the distillation of Armagnac. 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