The Rituals Of Dinner

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HarperCollins, Sep 8, 2008 - Cooking - 480 pages

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD

Winner of the IACP Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Going beyond what we eat to consider how we eat it, Visser examines the origins, evolution and eccentricities of

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Contents

BEHAVING
6
LEARNING TO BEHAVE
47
DINNER IS SERVED
155
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

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.

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