Margaret Visser writes on history, anthropology, and the mythology of everyday life. Her books, which include The Gift of Thanks, Much Depends on Dinner (a Glenfiddich Prize for the Food Book of the Year winner), The Way We Are, and The Geometry of Love, have all been bestsellers, and The Rituals of Dinner won the International Association of Culinary Professionals Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award. A professor of Classics for eighteen years, she now lives in Toronto and the south of France.