Margaret Visser
Margaret Visser is a writer and broadcaster who lives in Toronto, Barcelona, and South West France. Her subject matter is the history, anthropology, and mythology of everyday life.
Born in South Africa, she attended school in Zambia, Zimbabwe, France (the Sorbonne) and Canada. She taught Greek and Latin at the University of Toronto for 18 years. Her writing has won numerous awards, including the Charles Taylor Prize, the Glenfiddich Award for Food Book of the Year in Britain in 1989, the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Literary Food Writing Award, and the Jane Grigson Award.
Bibliography
- Beyond Fate: Visser's Massey Lectures (2002)
- The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (2000)
- The Way We Are: Collected Essays (2000)
- The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, & Meaning of Table Manners (1992)
- Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal (1986)