Recipe for Love

Oct 11, 2014

1h 21m

★ 5.9

Overview

Lauren Hennessey has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at her job at "Food & Entertainment Magazine's" test kitchen while she dreams of being able to finally afford culinary school in Paris. When her boss offers her a bonus if she agrees to ghostwrite the cookbook of a difficult celebrity chef, Lauren sees her dream becoming a reality as soon as she can tame the notorious bad boy chef in question, Dexter Durant. Slowly peeling back the layers of Dexter's tough-guy persona, she starts seeing a different, vulnerable side to this big-shot chef. Suddenly, their dueling culinary styles become the perfect complement in the kitchen and an attraction between them starts to boil over.

Genres

TV Movie

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Lighthouse Pictures

Storybox Entertainment

Craig Anderson Productions

Hallmark Media

Recipe for Love Trailers

Cast

Lauren Hennessey

Danielle Panabaker

Dexter Durant

Shawn Roberts

Nan

Pascale Hutton

Denise

Karen Holness

Kenny

Nelson Wong

Ginny

Laura Soltis

April

Lori Triolo

Cooking Show Host

Peter DeLuise

Gio

Amos Mitchell

Principal Harris

Patti Allan

Kevin

Ahmed Muslimani

Erik

Brent McLaren

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