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Waverley Root


Born
in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States
April 15, 1903

Died
October 31, 1982

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Waverley Lewis Root (April 15, 1903, in Providence, Rhode Island – October 31, 1982 in Paris) was an American journalist and writer. Root authored the classic The Food of Italy on Italy and its regional cuisines.

Root was a news correspondent for over 30 years; in 1969 he retired from daily journalism. He was the Paris correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and then The Washington Post. He was also a columnist for the International Herald Tribune.

His books and writings focused on food, and yet mingled culinary details of the regions he wrote about with historic facts, and literary references. [wikipedia]

Average rating: 4.17 · 420 ratings · 54 reviews · 35 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Food of France

4.27 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1958 — 23 editions
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The Food of Italy: A Culina...

4.23 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1971 — 7 editions
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The Cooking of Italy

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4.07 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1968 — 23 editions
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Food: An Authoritative and ...

4.26 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1980 — 10 editions
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Eating In America

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3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1976 — 10 editions
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The Paris Edition, 1927-1934

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3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions
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The Best of Italian Cooking

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1974 — 5 editions
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Secret History of the War  v.1

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1945
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Herbs and spices: The pursu...

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Contemporary French Cooking

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1962 — 4 editions
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“Food critic and writer Waverley Root described the common American near beer as "such a wishy-washy, thin, ill-tasting, discouraging sort of slop that it might have been dreamed up by a Puritan Machiavelli with the intent of disgusting drinkers with genuine beer forever."[21]”
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