Recipe for Love by Katie FfordeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Zoe Harper has entered a cooking competition (think Masterchef), when she arrives at the country house in Herefordshire where the competition is situated (owned by the sublime Fenella and Rupert - also if anyone reading this could tell me if Fen and Rupes have their own novel I would be ever so grateful).
Before the competition even starts Zoe is wandering the grounds when she encounters an attractive, albeit arrogant and grumpy, man who gets his car stuck in a ditch. Zoe and the man spend a lot of time getting his car out of the ditch by which time both of them are very muddy and sweaty, Zoe has also realised that the man is Gideon Irving, renowned critic and food author and one of the three judges in the competition.
This book is choc full of cooking challenges, delicious sounding food, romance and nefarious competitors. If you enjoy Masterchef you'll love this I'm sure.
Having read so many Katie Fforde books recently I've decided that she doesn't really write the male lead characters at all, we get lots of the thoughts and actions of the female characters but the heroes are always a bit of a rough ink sketch, not much detail. Inevitably our hero falls for the heroine almost immediately, is a bit taciturn, gets possessive/jealous/breaks the rules, doesn't explain things to the heroine etc. But I still love them!
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