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From scratch [large type] : a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home / Tembi Locke.

by Locke, Tembi, 1970- author.

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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.

Locke, Tembi, 1970-

Locke, Tembi, 1970- -- Travel -- Italy -- Sicily.

Television actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.

African American actresses -- Biography.

Widows -- United States -- Biography.

9781432869243 (large print) (hardcover ; alk. paper)

1432869248 (large print) (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.

513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Large print edition.

Before, fate -- First summer, bitter almonds -- Second summer, dreaming in lentils -- Third summer, wild fennel.

"It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was just one problem: Saro's traditional Sicilian family did not approve of him marrying a black American woman, an actress no less. However, the couple, heartbroken but undeterred, forges on. They build a happy life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships and the love of their lives: a baby girl they adopt at birth. Eventually, they reconcile with Saro's family just as he faces a formidable cancer that will consume all their dreams. From Scratch chronicles three summers Tembi spends in Sicily with her daughter, Zoela, as she begins to piece together a life without her husband in his tiny hometown hamlet of farmers. Where once Tembi was estranged from Saro's family and his origins, now she finds solace and nourishment--literally and spiritually--at her mother in law's table. In the Sicilian countryside, she discovers the healing gifts of simple fresh food, the embrace of a close knit community, and timeless traditions and wisdom that light a path forward. All along the way she reflects on her and Saro's incredible romance--an indelible love story that leaps off the pages. In Sicily, it is said that every story begins with a marriage or a death--in Tembi Locke's case, it is both. Her story is about loss, but it's really about love found. Her story is about travel, but it's really about finding a home. It is about food, but it's really about chasing flavor as an act of remembrance"--

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