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). Her mother, Beatrice, has been described as an excellent cook and her father, Joseph Solomon, was a commission merchant in a wholesale produce market.,

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. Sheraton was the first female restaurant critic at the Times.

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.

Married to Richard Falcone, she has one son.

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