By Adeena Sussman for Hadassah Magazine
You don’t want to be running late for a first meeting with Mimi Sheraton, but that’s just the predicament I found myself in on a wintry Sunday morning. A New York snowstorm and unexpected subway trouble had conspired against me as I raced down an icy sidewalk to breakfast with the legendary food writer and restaurant critic. In my mind, I imagined the review she would draft of our initial encounter: Distasteful lack of punctuality. Tongue-tied, as if she had just eaten a mouthful of sticky peanut butter. Contrite, like a server apologizing for bad service.
I shouldn’t have worried. i angled my way through a pack of weekend fressers at Russ & Daughters Café on Orchard Street—the sit-down offshoot of the legendary appetizing store on the Lower East Side—to find Sheraton chatting with Danny Bowien, one of New York’s hottest young chefs. Even behind the convenient cover of his hipster glasses, Bowien was clearly as starstruck as I was. Joshua Russ Tepper, a third-generation owner, came over to make sure Sheraton was comfortable, shooting our waiters a silent visual cue: Take care of Mimi.
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