Wednesday Feb 24 2010 3:00 pm, Saskatoon, Main Floor
Gift of Thanks
In town as part of the University of Saskatchewan’s Whelen Visiting Lectureship, will be signing copies of her thought provoking and insightful books.
Whether her subject is the food on your dinner plate or your table manners, Margaret Visser has been able, in five award-winning works of nonfiction, to uncover and explain the intriguing and unexpected meanings of everyday objects and habits. Now she turns her keen eye to an exploration of another custom so frequently encountered that it often escapes attention: saying “thank you.” What do we really mean by these two simple words? What are the implications of gratitude, and why are we so enraged when we meet its opposite?
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In The Gift of Thanks, Margaret visser continues her exploration of the cultural implications of common objects and ordinary behaviour. The simple habit of saying “thank you,” and indeed ...
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In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helple...
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Chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of the best books of 2000 and a national bestseller, The Geometry of Love is Margaret Visser's love letter to a church. Taking one church, Sant' Agnese...
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Winning unanimous praise on its publication and now available in paperback from Grove Press, Much Depends on Dinner is a delightful and intelligent history of the food we eat. Presented a...
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Winner of the International Association of Culinary Professions’ Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award in the US, and chosen as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book ...
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This marvellous collection of over 60 pithy essays inspired by Visser’s column in Saturday Night magazine explores the cultural significance of everyday objects and phenomena such as jell...
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