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Margaret Visser

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http://www.margaretvisser.com/index.htm

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History, Cooking, Food & Wine

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Margaret Visser writes on the history, anthropology, and mythology of
everyday life. Her most recent book is The Gift of Thanks, published by HarperCollins. Her previous books, Much Depends on Dinner, The Rituals of Dinner, The Way We Are, and The Geometry of Love, have all been best sellers and have won major international awards, including the Glenfiddich Award for Foodbook of the Year in Britain in 1989, the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Literary Food Writing Award, and the Jane Grigson Award. In 2002 she gave the Massey Lectures on CBC radio, subsequently published as the best-selling book, Beyond Fate. Her books have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. She appears frequentl...more

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Average rating: 3.80 · 422 ratings · 86 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal 3.85 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 1986 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Rituals of Dinner 3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church 4.00 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Way We Are 3.42 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude 3.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Beyond Fate (Massey Lectures) 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Thanks 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	More Than Meets The Eye 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Mahlzeit! 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink by Carolyn Korsmeyer (Editor), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (Contributor), Mary Weismantel (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Fast-food outlets are cultural institutions dedicated not only to dealing with mankind's compulsion to eat and drink regularly, but also to doing battle with his twin and fatal limitations of space and time.”
― Margaret Visser, Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal

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