For fans of Jenny Han, Jane Austen, and The Great British Baking
Show, A Taste for Love, is a delicious rom com about first love,
familial expectations, and making the perfect bao.
To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. Smart,
kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge.
But to her mom, Liza is anything but. Compared to her older sister
Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to
push back against all of Mrs. Yang's traditional values, especially when
it comes to dating.
The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking.
Mrs. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang Bakery. With
college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery's
annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she's more than her
rebellious tendencies once and for all. But when Liza arrives on the
first day of the bake-off, she realizes there's a catch: all of the
contestants are young Asian American men her mother has handpicked for
Liza to date.
The bachelorette situation Liza has found herself in is made even worse
when she happens to be grudgingly attracted to one of the contestants;
the stoic, impenetrable, annoyingly hot James Wong. As she battles
against her feelings for James, and for her mother's approval, Liza
begins to realize there's no tried and true recipe for love.
