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Recipe for Love

Recipe for Love

20145.91h 21m

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.

Directed by Ron Oliver
Written by Michael J. Murray
Produced by Jamie Goehring
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Top Cast

Danielle Panabaker

Danielle Panabaker

Lauren Hennessey

Shawn Roberts

Shawn Roberts

Dexter Durant

Pascale Hutton

Pascale Hutton

Nan

Karen Holness

Karen Holness

Denise

Nelson Wong

Nelson Wong

Kenny

Laura Soltis

Laura Soltis

Ginny

Lori Triolo

Lori Triolo

April

Peter DeLuise

Peter DeLuise

Cooking Show Host

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Amos Mitchell

Gio

Patti Allan

Patti Allan

Principal Harris

Themes & Keywords

cookingromcomchefghost writerhallmark

About Recipe for Love

Recipe for Love is a tv movie, drama, romance film released in 2014 exploring themes of cooking, romcom, chef, ghost writer, hallmark. Directed by Ron Oliver, it stars Danielle Panabaker, Shawn Roberts, Pascale Hutton. 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.

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