All You Can Handle

Farrah Rochon writes contemporary romance with food at the center, and All You Can Handle leans into that. The story follows a chef trying to keep her food truck business afloat, and the man who keeps showing up at her window with opinions she didn’t ask for.

The back-and-forth between them does most of the work. Rochon is good at writing characters who actually argue, not the polite manufactured tension some romance authors use.

There’s enough of New Orleans in the book to make it feel placed somewhere specific. The food descriptions are detailed without becoming a recipe blog. And the ending lands without feeling rushed, which is harder to pull off than people give credit for.