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Margaret Visser

Margaret Visser is the author of The Rituals of Dinner among other books.

Selected bibliography

  • The Geometry of Love: Space Time Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (2001)
  • The Way We Are (1996)
  • The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners (1991)
  • Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal (1988)

Contributor’s website: www.margaretvisser.com

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Twenty-Two Different Ways of Cooking Veal · 30 November 2000

  • The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture by Rebecca Spang
  • Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession by Amy Trubek

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Hooked · 16 April 1998

  • Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky