Secret Ingredient: Love

THE WAY TO A BACHELOR'S HEART:

1 Alex Marchetti—die-hard bachelor

1 Fran Carlino—marriage-shy beauty

1 simmering attraction

2 matchmaking families

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1 secret ingredient: love

Combine passionate, hotheaded chef Fran Carlino and supercool, straitlaced bachelor Alex Marchetti. Slowly increase their mutual attraction. Add a dash of tension (neither claims to be the marrying kind), a generous spoonful of romantic spice and round off with a lot of familial stirring.

Finally, mix business with pleasure, turn up the heat and wait for the delectable developments....