In a remarkable career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Wini Moranville has witnessed the American restaurant landscape transform from the inside out. At just shy of fourteen, she began a ten-year stretch working in a kaleidoscope of quintessential midwestern eateries of the time. Moranville’s hands-on experiences weave a vivid tapestry of the American restaurant landscape in the 1970s and 1980s. In the mid-1990s, the tables turned as Moranville became a prolific food and wine writer for national publications, as well as the dining critic for the Des Moines Register and dsm Magazine.

Amidst the vast changes that have occurred over the years, Love Is My Favorite Flavor underscores the timelessness of what it is we seek when we entrust restaurateurs with our hard-earned money and our hard-won leisure time. Dining out may have changed dramatically since the 1970s, but the joys of being in the hands of people who care deeply about our time at their tables have not.

“To the cache of restaurant critics turned authors of well-loved memoirs, like Frank Bruni and Ruth Reichl, add Moranville, writer, cookbook editor, and restaurant reviewer …. Reading these stories of food and people, both local and international, anyone who has wielded similar forks and spoons (all fellow journalists, really) will giggle at Moranville’s descriptions of food junkets, snobs, and hierarchy. . . . There’s also much worthy of applause, like Des Moines’s first vegan kitchen, a story of Christmas caroling with a lonely line cook, and a French bistro opening its doors for a U.S. couple sans euros.”—Booklist

Wini Moranville has worked as a cookbook author, food and wine writer, and restaurant reviewer for more than twenty-five years. She has written hundreds of food-related articles for national food magazines and has served as the wine columnist for Relish Magazine, a TV food segment host, and a James Beard Restaurant Awards panelist.  Her other books include: The Little Women Cookbook, Everyday French Cooking: Modern French Cuisine Made Simple and The Bonne Femme Cookbook: Simple, Splendid Food That French Women Cook Every Day.

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