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‘From Scratch’ review: Zoe Saldaña in a Netflix story of love and loss that wouldn’t be out of place on Hallmark

From left: Eugenio Mastrandrea, Zoe Saldaña, Judith Scott and Keith David.

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

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