According to the New York Times, Mimi Sheraton, who served as the publication’s food critic from 1976 to 1983 and was the first woman to do so, passed away yesterday at the age of 97.
Sheraton, who was born and raised in New York, had a significant impact on contemporary food criticism. He was the first to make reservations using fictitious identities and to dress up for dinner to see how restaurants would treat “real” customers.
She stated in Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life that she “became more and more convinced that the unknown customer has a completely different experience from either a valued patron or a recognized food critic.” “They could as well be in different restaurants, practically speaking.”
Sheraton was known for being a strict and demanding critic who made sure she had a thorough understanding of a restaurant before providing her evaluation. She frequented restaurants far more frequently than the three times needed by her position, and for New York Magazine in 1972, she is renowned for spending 11 months sampling every one of the 1,196 things available in Bloomingdale’s food section. She has written multiple books, including 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die, worked at Seventeen and Good Housekeeping, and most recently published a food column for the Daily Beast.
“When I started working there, I read all the reviews in the archive, and as a result, I developed a great deal of respect for her. She was strong, brave, and direct.
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