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They built a happy life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships, and the love of their lives: a baby girl they adopted at birth. However, the couple, heartbroken but undeterred, forged on. There was just one problem: Saro& s traditional Sicilian family did not approve of his marrying a black American woman. It was love at first sight when actress Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence.

This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is & a captivating story of love lost and found& ( Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hours.

This scene of them returning to Sicily to spread his ashes and show their adoptive daughter his home was so emotional, especially because his Italian mom really saw Amy as her own daughter and even offered her his inheritance of their Italian home and land."A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour"-Īn African-American actress recounts her romance with a Sicilian chef whose traditional family disapproved of their marriage and how she sought solace in their close-knit community after his death. So, after his death, Locke returned to Sicily with the couple’s adopted daughter so that she could become closer with Saro’s family, who’d initially disliked Locke because she was a Black American. Cooking and eating his native Sicilian food was a passion himself and two shared over the years. In the movie his name was Lino, but in real lfe his name was Saro and he was a professional Italian chef. In that moment, she couldn’t have known that man would become her life - and that she’d eventually lose him to a rare form of cancer. When Houston naive Tembi Locke (named Amy in the TV show) bumped into Saro on a street in Florence, Italy, it was love at first sight. I almost wish I knew that it was a book before a TV series so that I could’ve experienced those emotions the first time around reading the book and then again coming to life on TV.

The story is the inspiration for a new limited series on Netflix. She is a Houston native that discusses her memoir of losing her husband and finding healing in the warmth of his mother’s Sicilian kitchen. Did any of you guys watch From Scratch? It’s a Netflix TV series based on the book and true story by Tembi Locke.