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Contemporary French Cooking
[ Contemporary French Cooking Root, Waverley ( Author ) ] Hardcover 2011
306 pages, Hardcover
First published January 12, 1962
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Waverley Root
35 books5 followersWaverley 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]
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]
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October 3, 2020
On a travel kick during quarantine times...reading cook books sponsored by airlines, hotels, cruise lines, etc. This one from Air France is old and good, with well-chosen array of french recipes adapted for US kitchens in the 1960's. Waverly Root is amusing. It also has fun end papers.
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