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Whose Prose Is the Most Scrumptious? Food Writer Mimi Sheraton Slams Sam Sifton

Mimi Sheraton, dining critic at The New York Times from 1975 to 1983, isn’t a fan of the person who currently occupies the position. She just really doesn’t like Sam Sifton’s writing.

“I don’t like it at all,” Sheraton told Capital New York in an article about the changing food landscape of Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/10/10 5:06pm

Dining

The Times Goes Brotastic in Review of Lavo, Every Bensimon Clone’s Fave Eatery

Q: What happens when the Sam Sifton, food critic for The New York Times, takes on Lavo, a Las Vegas nightclub-cum-restaurant plunked in the middle of Midtown?

A: We get sentences like this!

Take your girl down and get some vodka on. Your boys as well.

Well then! Lavo is the newly Read More

By Dan Duray 7/28/10 12:52pm

I Am Sifton, Hear Me Roar: The Lion Fares Poorly in The Times

“Who wants club food if anyone can have it?” Sam Sifton asks at the end of his anticipated write-up of The Lion, a question that seems to sum up the spirit of his one-star review.

Sifton was apparently spotted every time he dined at restaurant—which is partially Read More

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