A culinary expert is tasked with elevating the brand of a food channel personality. As their personalities clash, they start to realize that contrast can be as good in love as it is in food.

Cordon Bleu trained Becky Bayer works as an editor and agent at Keyner and Smith, a high end cookbook publisher in Seattle, their products more aspirational cookbooks destined for coffee tables than well dog eared books one would pull off the shelf to prepare a home-cooked meal. She is renowned for being the best not only for her knowledge of cooking and cuisines, but her attention to details, especially authenticity. Much to her chagrin as her much desired promotion to partner rests on its success, her boss Marty assigns her to work on the next cookbook of television chef Will Fryer, someone generally outside of the company's stable of authors, he more a celebrity hack than real chef. Not trained, Will, a widowed father to adolescent David, got into the business of cooking solely to get quick and easy meals on the table that David would eat. As such, Will takes shortcuts with canned ingredients. While Will's fans love him, and his cookbooks are successful, those in the culinary business, including Becky's boyfriend, food critic Robert Flannigan, don't think the food is either good or healthy. While Becky and Will have the same goal of elevating this next cookbook, they butt heads in having different ideas of what that actually means within their well-defined brands. Also making it difficult is that Will has decided to make this book on southwest cooking, having spent some time in New Mexico as a child. Becky, whose family is also from there, would focus on that cuisine if she ever opened her dream restaurant. As Becky and Will try to bridge the gap between them, they may discover something missing in their lives in losing track of personal goals.—Huggo

Seattle single father and TV chef Will Fryer's first cookbook, simple recipes for families without time for complicated cooking, was a hit. Publisher Marty assigns his gastronomy books agent, would be-chef Becky Bayer, to help upgrade his style for a better audience. They keep clashing, as Will's sensible standard is his eight year-old son David's taste, and each meal must be ready in under a half hour. Still they get closer as they get acquainted, both rooted in family traditions, and make fast healthy food to David's taste. She questions her relationship with fancy food critic Robert Flannigan, and Will encourages her to finally follow her dream to open her own restaurant.—KGF Vissers