When it comes to competitive cooking, Max Lunden is no stranger to winning...though he's never been great at working with a team. A master chef- and major hunk-he's traveled the world, picking up new cooking techniques as well as beautiful women. But when the prodigal chef returns home to his family's Greenwich Village restaurant, he discovers one too many cooks in the kitchen- and she's every bit as passionate as he is....

Navy cook Henry Beck faces his toughest kitchen challenge yet when he goes head to head for the title of Rising Star Chef with the girl he married and left behind ten years earlier.