Home is where the love is. And ideally, home is also where you find the best meals, and by the end of A Taste of Christmas, Natalie found love, home, family, and some delicious food. It doesn't get any better than that. Christmas came early in the form of a sweet little movie about a restaurant that starred Gilles Marini and had casual Italian spoken throughout the film. Both are on my list of weaknesses.

Gilles Marini playing a chef named Stefano was the icing on the cake and conjured up some Switched at Birth nostalgia from when he played a chef named Angelo. Stefano was a bit of a grump, but he was passionate about his food. As passionate as Lifetime is when it comes to blending Italian-American films and playing up all the fun food, family, Italianglish tropes.