From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home Audiobook (Free)

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A poignant and moving cross-cultural love tale set against the lush backdrop from the Sicilian countryside, where one girl discovers the healing powers of meals, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.

It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a road in Florence. There is just one issue: Saro’s traditional Sicilian family members about From Nothing: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Locating Home didn’t approve of him marrying a dark American girl, an actress no less. However, the couple, heartbroken but undeterred, forges on. They create a content life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships as well as the love of their lives: an infant woman they adopt at delivery. Ultimately, they reconcile with Saro’s family just as he faces a formidable tumor that may consume almost all their dreams.

From Nothing chronicles three summers Tembi spends in Sicily with her girl, Zoela, as she begins to patch together a life without her husband in his tiny hometown hamlet of farmers. Where once Tembi was estranged from Saro’s family members and his origins, now she finds solace and nourishment—literally and spiritually—at her mom in legislation’s table. In the Sicilian countryside, she discovers the recovery gifts of basic fresh meals, the embrace of the 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 tale that leaps from the pages.

In Sicily, it is said that every tale begins having a marriage or a loss of life—in Tembi Locke’s case, it is both. Her tale is about loss, but it’s actually about love discovered. Her story is approximately travel, but it’s really about selecting a home. It really is about meals, but it’s really about chasing taste as an action of remembrance. From Scratch is for anyone that has dared to reach for big like, fought for what mattered most, and needed a powerful reminder that lifestyle is…delicious.