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Mimi Sheraton

Biographical Note

Mimi Sheraton is a writer, critic, and cookbook author perhaps best known for her transformational work as a restaurant critic at The New York Times from 1975 to 1984. She has worked at Good Housekeeping, Seventeen, House Beautiful, and Time and written for The New Yorker, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Smart Money.

Access Points

People:
Baum, Joseph
Beard, James, 1903-1985
Brown, Helen Gurley
Claiborne, Craig
Glaser, Milton
Sheraton, Mimi
Snyder, Jerome
White, Agnes

Organizations:
Condé Nast's Traveler
Cosmopolitan
Cue New York
Four Seasons (Restaurant)
Gault Millau (Firm)
Gourmet
Guide du Pneu Michelin
House Beautiful
New York
New York Times
Pavillon (Restaurant : New York, N.Y.)
Restaurant Associates
Seventeen
Time

Subjects:
Authorship
Cooking, American -- History --20th century
Cooking -- Periodicals
Cooking -- Study and teaching
Dinners and dining
Gastronomy
Food habits -- United States
Food industry and trade
Food writing
Journalism
Local food
Produce trade
Restaurants -- New York (State) -- New York

Interview 1, July 2, 2009

Box: Electronic Records, E-records: MSS_309.ref96.1 (Material Type: electronic records)

Scope and Content

Running time: 1 hour, 17 minutes

Interview 2, July 20, 2009

Box: Electronic Records, E-records: MSS_309.ref98.1 (Material Type: electronic records)

Scope and Content

Running time: 1 hour, 26 minutes

Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012