Sheraton, Mimi

In a career of over sixty years as a journalist and food writer, Mimi Sheraton (1926–) has written for numerous publications on a diverse array of topics, along with cookbooks, memoirs, and culinary history, yet she is best remembered for her seven-year stint serving as restaurant critic for The New York Times from 1976 to 1983. One of the most powerful and influential critics of the twentieth century, with an elegant and incisive turn of phrase and a piercingly sharp sense of fairness, Mimi Sheraton revolutionized restaurant criticism in America.