Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews

Gina Foxton's life is in the toilet. She's the host of a cooking show called Fresh Start and has just found out that her program has been canceled because her boyfriend Scott has been having an affair with the wife of the show's sponsor. Her only chance of pulling herself back together and avoiding moving back home to Odum, Georgia with her parents is to win a job on the Cooking Channel. Her competition is Tate Moody, host of Vittles, which is an outdoorsy cooking show. Barry Adelman, vice president of programming at the Cooking Channel will choose either Gina or Tate based on a series of cooking challenges that he has created for them. When Gina and Tate meet, there's an attraction, of course, but she must concentrate on the contest to save her pride and livelihood. Will Gina be able to win both Tate and a new job? Andrews, who also wrote many mysteries under the name Kathy Hogan Trocheck, writes a southern novel with fun characters, although it could have used more plot. Little Bitty Lies is my favorite book by her.