With Love, Your Sweetly Salted

My wife and I enjoyed this Hallmark-like movie because the setting is Chicago, a city we love to visit, and much of the time is spent in various kitchens in food prep, something we both enjoy. However it was filmed in Canada with many beautiful location "establishing" shots of Chicago, many of them nighttime.

But I have a big complaint, the actress who plays the lead role as the Chicago food critic. She is Lanie McAuley as Alison. She has a very nice voice but most times delivers her lines with a lot of "vocal fry", or what I often refer to as "putting gravel into her voice." It quickly becomes very annoying and takes away from appreciating her character.

That aside, it is a nice story and a pleasant set of characters. Alison writes a food critic column as 'Sweetly Salted' and does not reveal her identity. When a publishing house in New York gets wind of her real identity they ask her to write a book, so she goes undercover as a sous chef for the restaurant she gave a bad review to.

Everything plays out just like most Hallmark movies, and there is a kiss about one minute before it ends. Easy entertainment after weekly steak and wine night, with chocolate cake of course for dessert.