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Much Depends On Dinner

By Margaret Visser

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WITH A NEW AFTERWORD

Winner of the Glenfiddich Prize for Food Book of the Year

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.

ISBN: 9781554682751
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
On Sale: Sep 8, 2008
List price: $21
No of pages: 352
Trim Size: 5.250 in (w) x 8.000 in (h) x 0.880 in (d)
BISAC 1: COOKING / History
BISAC 2: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

Margaret Visser

Biography

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.

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD

Winner of the Glenfiddich Prize for Food Book of the Year

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.

ISBN: 9781554682751
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
On Sale: Sep 8, 2008
List price: $21
No of pages: 352
Trim Size: 5.250 in (w) x 8.000 in (h) x 0.880 in (d)
BISAC 1: COOKING / History
BISAC 2: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

Margaret Visser

Biography

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.