A Christmas Recipe for Romance - Holiday Movie Musings

Can you learn to cook improvisationally under high pressure in just two weeks!? Let’s find out in A Christmas Recipe for Romance!

This movie has everything you’d expect. 

Big city guy hates small towns, but here he is for at a small town inn for vacation. He’s a famous, bitter, rude celebrity chef. 

Small town girl runs the inn. It’s grandma’s inn! She’s hopeless at cooking; famous for it, in fact. Don’t let her near a kitchen, friends!

Oh no, we need to save the inn! Coincidentally, we JUST booked the entire cast and crew of a live cooking competition in our inn. A crew that suddenly decided, just weeks before airing, to film this year’s event in this little town. Oh, and they still haven’t settled on the “hometown flavor” guest who gets to compete, so there’s still time to apply to be on the show. The prize money is almost exactly the money we need to save the inn. TODAY IS THE DEADLINE!

Famous, bitter, rude celebrity chef who vowed never to enter a kitchen again reluctantly agrees to coach hopeless small town girl in cheffing so she can win competition, to save the inn. Step 3: romance!

The entire set is red on red on red on red. Couches, clothes, decor, mugs, just so you don’t forget it’s Christmas (even though the entire plot has nothing to do with Christmas). The music is all Christmas music. Everyone wears Christmas aprons, and Christmas pins on their lapels. DON’T FORGET, IT’S CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! At the finale competition, they announce the surprise cooking theme. Out comes SANTA to announce the theme is “FAMILY CHRISTMAS!” What a shocking turn of events. Incidentally, no one really cooks anything Christmas-y.

Will a movie poster with the two main characters snuggling, under the title with the word “Romance” in it, produced by Harlequin novels/movies, end up with a happy ending? Tune in to fund out!

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