I didn’t “warm” to this cooking-themed romance as much as I’d hoped to. The romance felt much too easy and there wasn’t a lot of internal growth for each character, aside from making some career decisions.
I did enjoy the setting of the novel, which was a food-vendor conference in Chicago. Ellie is helping her parents with their Armenian-American food company, when she meets Vanya, who is working with her family’s Armenian-American food line. The two hit it off immediately, until they...