Teri Polo Stars in Hallmark Channel's A TASTE OF ROMANCE Premiering 1/14

Culinary styles clash when a classically trained chef falls for a laidback cook inA TASTE OF ROMANCE a Hallmark Channel Original Movie World Premiere Saturday, January 14 (9p.m. ET/PT, 8C). Emmy(R) Award nominee Teri Polo ("The West Wing," "Meet the Parents") and Emmy(R) Award nominee James Patrick Stuart ("All My Children") star in this charming romantic comedy along with Bailee Madison ("Just Go With It"), Romy Rosemont ("Glee") and Rockmond Dunbar ("Prison Break").

Uptight French chef Sara Westbrook (Polo) gets fired up when her upscale café, Chez Varenne, is suddenly overshadowed by a new restaurant moving in next door run by a group of rowdy firemen. Led by handsome former fire fighter Gill Callahan (Stuart) and his friend Danny (Dunbar), The Five Alarm Grill is soon a big success while Sara and Patsy (Rosemont), her pastry chef, struggle to bring in customers. Sara suddenly softens when she meets Gill's ten-year-old daughter Hannah (Madison) who she can't help but take under her wing when she learns Hannah, like herself, is growing up without a mom. Ignoring the obvious tension between her dad and Sara, Hannah is soon playing matchmaker. As Gill and Sara slowly begin to stir up romance instead of acrimony, their relationship is tested once again when a local food critic reviews The Five Alarm Grill instead of Chez Varenne. Can the couple resist the temptation to compete with each other, or will the heat of the competition drive them apart?

"A Taste of Romance" is an Alpine Medien Production in association with Larry Levinson Productions. Larry Levinson is executive producer. Amanda Philips and Randy Pope are co-executive producers. Lincoln Lageson is producer. Lee Rose directed from a script by Jennifer Notas. Story by Evan Laughlin.

Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming available in high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) to a national audience of 87 million subscribers. The top tier program service is distributed through approximately 5,492 cable systems and communities as well as direct-to-home satellite services across the country. Hallmark Channel is the nation's leading network in quality family programming with an ambitious slate of original TV movies, lifestyle and general entertainment content, and is the home of "The Martha Stewart Show", which anchors the channel's daytime original programming block. Hallmark Channel's sibling network is Hallmark Movie Channel, also available in HD and SD, which focuses on the family-friendly movies with a mix of classic theatrical films, presentations from the acclaimEd HallMark Hall of Fame library, original Hallmark Channel movies and special events.

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