A Kingsborough College literary feast: Mimi Sheraton
Brooklyn BookBeat
The name Mimi Sheraton is as synonymous with food as the names of great international chefs. Yet her memories return her to her native Brooklyn: “Clams are my Brooklyn summers at Manhattan Beach and Sheepshead Bay when Lundy’s…had an outside clam bar.”
She has written 16 books on food and travel, winning praise along the way. But her fame emerged from the pages of The New York Times, where she commanded attention as that newspaper’s first female food and restaurant critic for eight years.
Sheraton will speak about food and her Brooklyn upbringing on Oct. 18 at Kingsborough Community College in Manhattan Beach.
Hailing from the neighborhood of Midwood, she studied journalism and marketing at New York University, which introduced her to copy writing at Good Housekeeping and Seventeen magazines. She was hired as a Times critic in 1975. Her experience led to subsequent positions and assignments at Time, Conde Nast Traveler, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.