Mimi Sheraton is a journalist, restaurant critic, lecturer, IACP and James Beard Award winning cookbook author, and the woman about whom famed chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten declared: Her knowledge knows no bounds, her glossary of flavors is ultimate. Her opinion is like gold. The former restaurant critic of The New York Times, she s also written for The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Food & Wine, Smithsonian, and more. In April 2016, the Culinary Institute of America honored her as a Legend of New York Dining. Ms. Sheraton lives in New York City.