Mimi Sheraton was born on February 10, 1926 in Brooklyn, the younger of Joseph and Beatrice (Breit) Solomon’s two children. Her mother was a fantastic cook, and her father ran a produce business in Manhattan.
Their Jewish non-kosher family spoke passionately about cooking and food. Summer meant Lundy’s seafood on Sheepshead Bay and Nathan’s Famous hot dogs in Coney Island for Mimi and her brother, Arthur. She earned diplomas from New York University in 1947 and Midwood High School in 1943, respectively.
Sheraton worked for Vanity Fair, Time, New York, Condé Nast Traveler, and other publications throughout the course of a six-decade career. She also wrote 16 books, including restaurant recommendations, cookbooks, autobiographies, and a sort of farewell, “1,000 Things to Taste Before You Die” (2015).
She estimated in 2013 that she had eaten professionally in restaurants in 49 different countries for 21,170 meals.
Who was Mimi Sheraton? Influential food writer and reviewer, dies at 97
Mimi Sheraton passed away on Thursday in the Manhattan borough of New York. She was a food writer and restaurant critic who covered the culinary scenes in New York and around the world with a discriminating palate and skillful prose that captured the subtleties of haute cuisine and explored the mysteries of chicken soup.
Marc Falcone, her son, announced her death at the New York University Langone Medical Center.