Mimi Sheraton is a pioneering food writer and former restaurant critic for Cue, the Village Voice, and the New York Times. Her writings on food and travel have appeared in Time, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, Vogue, Town & Country, New York magazine, and Food & Wine. She has written 16 books, including The German Cookbook, which was reissued last year in a 50th anniversary edition, and a memoir, Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life. Her latest book, 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die, was published in 2015.