From Scratch, the beautiful memoir from TembiLocke, is now a Netflix series that critics and viewers are raving about
begins by leaping forward in time, with a recounting of the author driving along a winding country road through a small Sicilian village in a rusted Fiat, her husband’s ashes in a small box tucked between her legs. “In Siciliy,” she writes, “every story begins with a marriage or death.” In her case, the story starts with both, though it certainly doesn’t end there.
Over the weekend, millions of Netflix subscribers got caught up in an adaptation of that same story, based on Locke’s memoir about losing and finding love, thanks to the fact that the author, today, is a 52-year-old actress and also the creator of a, and it’s based on her story about studying abroad in Italy years ago, and falling in love with a Sicilian chef.