The Rituals of Dinner - Margaret Visser

Margaret Visser writes on history, anthropology, and the mythology of everyday life. Her books, which include The Gift of Thanks , Much Depends on Dinner (a Glenfiddich Prize for the Food Book of the Year winner), The Way We Are , and The Geometry of Love , have all been bestsellers, and The Rituals of Dinner won the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award. A professor of Classics for eighteen years, she now lives in Toronto and the south of France.