Secret Ingredient: Love — Teresa Southwick

The Way to a Bachelor's Heart

Serves Two

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....