1. Advocate New York Times Bestselling Author of FROM SCRATCH (Reese's Bookclub Pick) I tell stories on screen, page and stage. Posts IGTV Tagged.
2. From Scratch is for anyone who has dared to reach for big love, fought for what mattered most, and needed a powerful reminder that life is.delicious. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ©2019 Tembi Locke (P)2019 Simon & Schuster.
3. Houston native Tembi Locke has enjoyed a storied acting career that includes appearances in shows ranging from the The Fresh Prince of Bel Air to NCIS: LA. But when her husband passed away after a long battle with cancer, Locke turned to writing as a way to cope and honor his memory. Her book, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home, was published in 2019 and is being adapted into.
4. Tembi Locke is an accomplished actor who has appeared in over sixty television shows and films, including The Magicians, NCIS: LA, Animal Kingdom, and Dumb and Dumber To. She is also a TEDx speaker. Her talk, What Forty Steps Taught Me About Love and Grief, traces her journey as a.

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From Scratch @ Home - Tembi Locke: Official Website. A blog by actor and author Tembi Locke in which she talks about the launch of From Scratch @ Home, a live online course.

Tembi Locke is the author of the New York Times bestseller (and Reese Witherspoon pick), FROM SCRATCH, an absolutely stunning memoir chronicling the time she spent piecing together her life after her husband’s death. Set in the beautiful Sicilian countryside, she discovers the healing powers of food, family, and grace in her darkest hours.

Off the Shelf was able to ask Tembi a few questions about her experiences, writing process, and a few of her favorite books.

What was your inspiration for turning your story into a memoir?

This story had been swelling in my heart for years. Some of it even before Saro passed. I understood that there were aspects of our love story that were rare and beautiful. However, three years after his passing I was seated in Sicily with Zoela and across from us was Nonna. We were at the dinner table at the end of what had been like the perfect summer day. And I had a thought: How did we get here, especially given where we started AND given that the only person connecting us is gone? That question felt like the makings of a book. Yet it was another two years, actually the fifth anniversary of his passing, before I felt ready to write it. I needed to build up my bravery to tell the story.

How longdid it take you to write?

I had beenworking on parts of From Scratch for years without really knowing that what Iwas writing would become a book. Once I sat down with the intention ofcompleting a book-length memoir, I wrote my first draft in eight months. Ispent the next four months rewriting, restructuring, revising and editing thatunwieldy draft into the book it is today.

Was there anything surprising you learned —about yourself, about art, about emotion— while writing the book?

Writing amemoir is about being with yourself, your past, your emotions (expressedand unexpressed). You embark on a deep dive of exploration and constantexcavation. It is about turning over the stones of the past and asking“why?” From that point of view, I was surprised by how much self careit required for me to get across the finish line. From the point of view ofcraft, I was surprised by the amount of research a memoir requires. Memory istricky. So, for me, research was essential.

What was your favorite part about writing it?

Myfavorite part of writing From Scratch was reliving the joyous tidal wave of newlove that I experienced in my first days in Florence. Rereading my collegejournals as well as letters from the era was transformational. I wasreintroduced to my younger self. For the first time, I saw a young woman who,even through her confusion and insecurity, had a great willingness tofollow her heart.

If there a memory or moment you’re most fond of, or you feel is the most powerful, that you knew you absolutely had to include?

The memoryof the night Saro stood in the rain was something that I knew I had to include.But it wasn’t until I was writing the book that I realized we had asymbolically parallel experience on our last day together. The realization thatthose two experiences were connected as kind of bookends in our relationshipwas poetic. Discovering that connection eventually made me understand the bookand my life in a whole new way.

What are some of your favorite books?

I alwaysreturn to the works of Louise Erdrich, Isabel Allende, and Toni Morrison. Mysister, Attica Locke’s, book, Heaven My Home, holds a special place in my heartbecause of its East Texas setting and lost history. Wild and The Historyof Love inspired me to write From Scratch. But across the decades, the writer Ikeep coming back to is James Baldwin. He’s like an old friend who keeps meetingme at different stages of life and always has new wisdom to impart.

If you could choose one lesson ormessage for readers to take away from your book, what would it be?
If I had to choose only one (which is hard), Iwould say to activate a brave heart in how we love and how we connect.

What’syour favorite place in Sicily that our readers should mark on their literarytravel list?

Palermofor a unique city experience and the Aeolian Islands for absolute adventure andthe gorgeous sea.

What is your favorite recipe in thebook?
That’s like asking me to pick a favorite friend. Ilove them all. However, I will say the one you can find most often in my houseis the classic Sicilian tomato sauce. When in doubt, a plate of pasta will doyou good.

Tembekile 'Tembi' Locke (born July 26, 1970) is an American actress who has appeared in television shows and film. She is best known as Dr. Grace Monroe on Syfy's series Eureka and as Dr. Diana Davis in Sliders and has appeared in such shows as The Mentalist, Castle and Bones.

Life and career[edit]

Born to civil rights activist parents, she attended Alief Hastings High School in Houston. After high school, Locke lived for a time in Italy on a foreign exchange program. While there, she appeared several times on Italian television, including the Carnivale Di Venez.^[1] After returning to the United States, she graduated with an art history degree from Wesleyan University, in Connecticut. She speaks fluent Italian.^[2]

After college, Locke moved to New York City, where she worked on the CBS serial drama As the World Turns, while attending school during the day and waiting tables at night. She studied at Circle in the Square with William Esper.^{[citation needed]} Locke and her husband, Rosario 'Saro' Gullo, an Italian chef, lived and worked in Los Angeles, California. Her husband died in 2012. They have one daughter named Zoela who was 7 at the time of her father's death. She is a vegetarian, and urban homesteader, regularly growing produce on vacant lots in the city.^[2] Locke is a gourmet cook, and also enjoys hiking, running and fishing.^[1] She is involved in several social activism programs.^[2]

Career[edit]

While in New York, Locke appeared in several off-Broadway productions, and landed a role on the long-running soap opera As The World Turns. Afterward, she moved to Los Angeles. Her prime-time television career began by playing one of Will Smith's love interests on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

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Locke has appeared in numerous television dramas, comedies, and films over the course of her career. She played Dr. Grace Monroe, a biotech specialist, on seasons four and five of Syfy's series EUReKA (2010–2012). She also starred as Dr. Diana Davis on season five of the Fox/Syfy show Sliders (1999–2000).

Locke's television work includes shows such as Castle, Bones, The Mentalist, Windfall, CSI: NY, and Beverly Hills, 90210. Her comedic turns include Friends, The Jamie Foxx Show, House of Payne, Like Family, and Raising Dad, among others. She has appeared in a number of movies made for television, including Black Widow, Final Approach and Born in the USA.

While her body of work involves mainly episodic television as well as several made-for-TV movies, she has worked in more than 50 American television ad campaigns.^{[citation needed]} In 2014, Locke appeared as Dr. Walcott in Dumb and Dumber To.

As of October 2018, her most recent work is in the second installment of Hulu original 'Into the Dark' series. She plays the therapist in the episode Flesh & Blood.

Locke's memoir, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home (published April 30, 2019), is about her transracial romance with her Italian husband and her grief after his untimely death.

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