After the death of her husband from cancer, actress Tembi Locke wrote a 2019 memoir about the experience called “From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home.” In her first few years as a widow, she and her young daughter spent their summers in the small town of her husband’s native Sicily, forging an unexpected bond with her mother-in-law and the place itself. The eight-part Netflix drama “From Scratch,” starring Zoe Saldaña, is a lightly fictionalized adaptation of that story, beginning when Amy (Saldaña in the role based on Locke) enrolls in an art program in Florence, Italy, wh…
