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Salt and Sugar - A Rival Chefs MM Romance
Paperback
RomanceGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Wmc Publishing
Published: Mar 9 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ryo Takahashi has built his restaurant on discipline, precision, and the legacy of the father who taught him that food could speak when words failed. With the city food awards approaching, he needs one perfect dish to prove that his elegant, exacting vision deserves its place at the top.
Alex Moreno does not have marble tables, tasting menus, or critics whispering in his dining room. He has a family food truck, a line around the block, and recipes that carry his mother's memory in every bite. To Alex, food should be generous, messy, unforgettable, and real.
The media turns them into rivals before they have even shared a room: fine dining against street food, precision against instinct, polish against heart.
Then they meet at dawn in the farmers' market, anonymous beneath hoods and caps, fighting over the same basket of mushrooms before discovering a connection neither expected. Week by week, coffee by coffee, the stranger across the table becomes the one person who understands what cooking has cost them.
But the awards are getting closer, their families are watching, and the city is hungry for a showdown. Ryo and Alex may be competing for the same prize, but the real risk is admitting that the one man they are supposed to beat might be the one man they cannot let go.
Salt and Sugar is a contemporary MM rival-chefs romance about family recipes, professional pride, secret dawn meetings, and the dangerous sweetness of falling for the competition.
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