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Much Depends On Dinner

by (author) Margaret Visser

Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Initial publish date
May 2012
Category
Cultural
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554682751
    Publish Date
    Sep 2008
    List Price
    $21.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443403702
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $11.99

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Course by course, Margaret Visser examines an ordinary meal—corn, salt, butter, chicken, rice, lettuce, olive oil, lemon juice and ice cream—to show the unexpected history, mythology and taboos behind what we eat.

About the author

MARGARET VISSER is an award-winning author and essayist. Her previous five books, all bestsellers, have met with international acclaim. Much Depends On Dinner won the Glenfiddich Prize for Food Book of the Year and was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and The New York Times. The Rituals Of Dinner won the IACP Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her most recent book, The Geometry of Love, also the subject of a prize-winning documentary film, was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize. A professor of classics at York University for 18 years, she now devotes her time to research and writing. Visser lives in Toronto, Paris and the south of France. Visit her online at www.margaretvisser.com.

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