Comfort Food

Plot

Shortly before turning the big 5-0, hostess extraordinaire and Cooking with Gusto! TV personality Autusta "Gus" Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party she'd rather ignore--her own. She's getting tired of being the hostess, the mother hen, the woman who has to bake her own birthday cake. To make things worse, the network execs at the Cooking Chanel want to boost her ratings by teaming Gus with the beautiful ambitious Carmen Vega, a former Miss Spain, who is decidedly not middle-aged. But Gus won't go without a fight. She re-creates her show as an on-air cooking class, which she uses as an excuse to bring together her extended family for some lessons in life as well as cuisine.