biography
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Root, Waverley (Lewis)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–82)
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| biography:
| Journalist and writer, born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was a longtime Paris correspondent for newspapers from the Chicago Tribune (1927–57) to the Washington Post (1957–69). With The Food of France (1958), he launched a second, perhaps more memorable, career as a food writer, and other works include the international dictionary Food (1980). |
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