Love From Scratch

 

My Thoughts:

This is the perfect summer, fall break, spring break, or even long weekend read if you want something with food, social media, competition and romance. It's not all sugar and marshmallow fluff, though. The dramatic issues are realistic and timely for the YA reader, but the cute factor still wins. 

If you liked the way different characters interacted in the movie The Intern with Robert DeNiro, this is similar with two interns competing for one fall intern slot at a station very similar to the Food Network. What made this stronger was that each of the characters bring their own talents and gifts. They are not both cooks so they are not having to compete for the same thing. Instead, what works is their chemistry and the way they are able to collaborate and be more valuable as a duo. Fun!

From the Publishers:

This summer, Reese Camden is trading sweet tea and Southern hospitality for cold brew and crisp coastal air. She's landed her dream marketing internship at Friends of Flavor, a wildly popular cooking channel in Seattle. The only problem? Benny Beneventi, the relentlessly charming, backwards-baseball-cap-wearing culinary intern—and her main competition for the fall job.

Reese's plan to keep work a No Feelings Zone crumbles like a day-old muffin when she and Benny are thrown together for a video shoot that goes viral, making them the internet's newest ship. Audiences are hungry for more, and their bosses at Friends of Flavor are happy to deliver. Soon Reese and Benny are in an all-out food war, churning homemade ice cream, twisting soft pretzels, breaking eggs in an omelet showdown—while hundreds of thousands of viewers watch.  

Author: Katilyn Hill

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Publication date: April 5, 2022