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...DIED. Waverley Root, 79, prolific Paris-based foreign correspondent and author of compendious books on haute cuisine; of lung disease; in Paris. Despite writing such weighty tomes as his two-volume The Secret History of the War and The Truth about Wagner, Root was savored most for gastronomic texts like The Food of France (1958). Root's cardinal rule for eating in Paris: Follow the taxi drivers...
...Food of France by Waverley Root (Knopf; $15 hardcover; Random House; $5.95 paper). The authoritative guide to the subject in any language...
EATING IN AMERICA by WAVERLEY ROOT and RICHARD DE ROCHEMONT 512 pages. Morrow...
...Authors Waverley Root and Richard de Rochemont, both experienced food writers (De Rochemont is also a movie producer), are primarily interested in quality rather than quantity. Their bias is clearly Continental but they are not snobs. They can generalize that American cooking is basically overcooked and underseasoned, but they also discriminate between cuisine and good cooking-especially food with ethnic influences like Tex-Mex, creole and soul...
Edmund R. Hanauer is executive director of the Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine of Waverley, Mass...