Mimi Sheraton

Mimi Sheraton
Born	Mimi Solomon Flatbush, Brooklyn
Residence	Greenwich Village
Education	New York University
Occupation	Food Critic, Author, Lecturer
Employer	Seventeen Magazine, New York Times
Home town	New York City

Mimi Sheraton is an influential food critic born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY (circa 1926).^[1] Her mother, Beatrice, has been described as an excellent cook and her father, Joseph Solomon, was a commission merchant in a wholesale produce market.,^[2]^[3]

Education and early career

Sheraton attended the NYU School of Commerce, majoring in marketing and minoring in journalism. She went to work as a home furnishing copywriter. That led her on a path to becoming a certified interior designer. While traveling often as the home furnishing editor at Seventeen Magazine, she began to explore her interest in food. Her food career continued and in December 1975, she became the food critic for the New York Times, where she stayed for eight years.^[4] Sheraton was the first female restaurant critic at the Times.^[5]

Food critic career

After leaving the Times in 1983, Sheraton worked for a variety of magazines, including Time, Condé Nast Traveler, Harpers Bazaar, and Vogue. She has lectured at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration as well as the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, California.^[6]

Bibliography

Books

The Seducer's Cookbook, 1964
City Portraits; a Guide to 60 of the World's Great Cities, 1964
The German Cookbook, 1965
Family Circle's Barbecues From Around the World, 1973
Visions of Sugarplums: A Cookbook of Cakes, Cookies, Candies & Confections from All the Countries that Celebrate Christmas, 1986
The Whole World Loves Chicken Soup, 1995
Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
1,000 Foods to Eat Before you Die
From My Mother's Kitchen, 1977
Mimi Sheraton's Favorite New York Restaurants , 1991
Food Tales, 1992
Food Markets of the World, 1997
Hors d'Oeuvres & Appetizers, 2001
The Bialy Eaters, 2000
Eating My Words, 2004

Articles

Sheraton, Mimi (December 3, 2012). "Charcuterie Dept.: Missing Links". The New Yorker. 88 (38): 74–77. Retrieved 2014-12-11.

Honors and awards

The Whole World Loves Chicken Soup won the IACP and James Beard awards.,^[7] 1996
James Beard journalism award for her article on the Four Seasons’ fortieth anniversary in Vanity Fair^[8] (James Beard Award for Magazine Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs)^[9]

Personal life

Married to Richard Falcone, she has one son.^[10]

References

External links

One on 1: Food Critic Mimi asheraton

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