Mimi Sheraton

{{Infobox person

| birthname = Miriam Solomon

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|2|10}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|4|6|1926|2|10}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| education = Midwood High School

| alma_mater = New York University

| occupation = Food critic, writer, lecturer

| employer = Seventeen, The New York Times, Time, Condé Nast Traveler, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, The Daily Beast

| spouse = Richard Falcone

| children = 1

}}

Miriam "Mimi" Sheraton ({{née}} Solomon; February 10, 1926 – April 6, 2023) was an American food critic.{{Cite web|date=December 17, 1979|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20075345,00.html|title=Who's Killing The Great Chefs of France|work=People|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062158/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20075345,00.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}

Early life and education

Sheraton's mother, Beatrice, was described as an excellent cook and her father, Joseph Solomon, as a commission merchant in a wholesale produce market.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/dining/at-lunch-with-mimi-sheraton-undisguised-pleasures-of-a-former-critic.html|title=AT LUNCH WITH/MIMI SHERATON; Undisguised Pleasures Of a Former Critic|first=Alex|last=Witchel|work=The New York Times |date=May 12, 2004|via=NYTimes.com}}

A 1943 graduate of Midwood High School,{{cite news|last1=Haberman|first1=Clyde|title=Fries Dance. Buns Smush. Minds Stretch.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/nyregion/fries-dance-buns-smush-minds-stretch.html|access-date=28 January 2018|work=The New York Times|date=December 7, 2004}}{{cite news |author=Katz, Nancie L. |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/midwood-honor-top-alumni-article-1.842755 |title=Midwood to Honor Top Alumni |work=New York Daily News |date=October 13, 1999 |access-date=January 28, 2018}} Sheraton attended the NYU School of Commerce, majoring in marketing and minoring in journalism. She went to work as a home furnishing copywriter and a certified interior designer.

Food criticism

While traveling often as the home furnishing editor of Seventeen magazine, Sheraton began to explore her interest in food. In December 1975, she became the food critic for The New York Times.{{Cite web |url=http://www.starchefs.com/MSheraton/MSheraton_bio.shtml |title=Starchefs.com bio |access-date=September 28, 2014 |archive-date=October 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008143115/http://www.starchefs.com/MSheraton/MSheraton_bio.shtml }} She was its first female restaurant critic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mimi-sheraton_n_7066278|title=7 Life Lessons We Can All Learn From An 89-Year-Old Food Writer|last=Spiegel|first=Alison|date=April 15, 2015|website=HuffPost}} After leaving the paper in 1983, she wrote for magazines such as Time, Condé Nast Traveler, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. She lectured at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, and the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, California.{{Cite web|url=http://www.starchefs.com/MSheraton/MSheraton_bio.shtml|title=Starchefs.com bio}} As of 2016, she was a food columnist for The Daily Beast.{{cite web | url =https://www.npr.org/2016/12/18/506076754/dishing-on-next-years-food-trends | title =Dishing On Next Year's Food Trends | last =Martin | first =Michael | date =December 18, 2016 | website =npr.org | publisher =All Things Considered | access-date =October 15, 2017 | quote =Mimi Sheraton writes a column for The Daily Beast. }}

Personal life and death

Sheraton and her husband, Richard Falcone, had a son.

Sheraton died in New York City on April 6, 2023, at the age of 97.{{Cite news |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |date=2023-04-07 |title=Mimi Sheraton, Innovative Food Critic at The New York Times, Dies at 97 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/dining/mimi-sheraton-dead.html |access-date=2023-04-07 |issn=0362-4331}}

Bibliography

=Books=

The Seducer's Cookbook, 1964''{{Cite book |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |url=https://www.amazon.com/Seducers-Cookbook-Mimi-Sheraton/dp/B0007E2PRK/ref=sr_1_10?crid=1JFWBPA1MG3R3&keywords=mimi+sheraton&qid=1681403107&sprefix=mimi+sheraton,aps,241&sr=8-10 |title=The Seducer's Cookbook |date=1963-01-01 |publisher=Random House |language=en}}
City Portraits; a Guide to 60 of the World's Great Cities, 1964{{Cite book |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KxszAAAAMAAJ&q=City+Portraits;+a+Guide+to+60+of+the+World's+Great+Cities |title=City Portraits: A Guide to 60 of the World's Great Cities |date=1964 |publisher=Harper & Row |language=en}}
The German Cookbook, 1965{{Cite book |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vGWNEAAAQBAJ |title=The German Cookbook: A Complete Guide to Mastering Authentic German Cooking |date=1965-10-12 |publisher=National Geographic Books |isbn=978-0-394-40138-6 |language=en}}
Family Circle's Barbecues From Around the World, 1973{{Cite book |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8SKHAAACAAJ |title=Family Circle's Barbecues from Around the World |date=1973 |publisher=Family Circle |language=en}}
Visions of Sugarplums: A Cookbook of Cakes, Cookies, Candies & Confections from All the Countries that Celebrate Christmas, 1986{{Cite book |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1k_OPwAACAAJ |title=Visions of Sugarplums: A Cookbook of Cakes, Cookies, Candies & Confections from All the Countries that Celebrate Christmas |date=1968 |publisher=Random House |language=en}}
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{{Cite book |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ebIAAAAACAAJ |title=Food Markets of the World |date=1997 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |isbn=978-0-8109-1184-0 |language=en}}
Hors d'Oeuvres & Appetizers, 2001
The Whole World Loves Chicken Soup, 2001{{Cite book |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGIaNQAACAAJ |title=The Whole World Loves Chicken Soup: Recipes and Lore to Comfort Body and Soul |date=2001 |publisher=Warner |isbn=978-0-446-67649-6 |language=en}}
The Bialy Eaters, 2000{{Cite book |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wrIsAAAAYAAJ&q=mimi+sheraton |title=The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World |date=2000 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=978-0-7679-0502-2 |language=en}}
Eating My Words, 2004

=Articles=

{{cite magazine |last=Sheraton |first=Mimi |date=December 3, 2012 |title=Charcuterie Dept.: Missing Links |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=88 |issue=38 |pages=74–77 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/03/missing-links-2 |access-date=2014-12-11}}

Awards

1974 Penney-Missouri Award{{cite magazine |title=Between The Lines |date = 18 November 1974|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_8jXFukv7HsC&pg=PA6 |magazine=New York Magazine |page=6 |access-date=28 December 2018 |via=Google Books}}
1996 IACP and James Beard Foundation Awards, for The Whole World Loves Chicken Soup{{Cite web|url=https://www.cookstr.com/|title=Cookstr.com|website=Cookstr.com}}
2014 James Beard Award for Magazine Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs, for an article on the Four Seasons' 40th anniversary in Vanity Fair{{Cite web|url=http://www.nycwff.org/p/mimi-sheraton-1177|title=Mimi Sheraton | 2014 NYCWFF | OCT 16-19, 2014}}{{Cite web|url=http://awardsandwinners.com/category/james-beard-foundation-award/2000/#sthash.xIu87WRA.dpuf|title=James Beard Foundation Award - 2000 | Winners & Nominees|website=awardsandwinners.com}}