Margaret Visser
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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 York University north of Toronto for 18 years.
For several years she regularly appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular radio program Morningside.
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. Visser was the 2002 CBC Massey lecturer, named after Vincent Massey.
She is married to Colin Visser, professor emeritus of the English Department of the University of Toronto.
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- Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal (1986)
- The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, & Meaning of Table Manners (1992)
- The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (2000)
- The Way We Are: Collected Essays (2000)
- Beyond Fate, Visser's Massey Lecture (2002)
