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Rituals Of Dinner

by (author) Margaret Visser

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Initial publish date
Aug 2000
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780006391050
    Publish Date
    Aug 2000
    List Price
    $19.95

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Winner of the International Association of Culinary Professions’ Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award in the US, and chosen as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year.

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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