I want to see everything while I still can.
The David, the Ponte Vecchio…
Okay, then what are you gonna do in your second week?
A young, black woman in her 20s, studies abroad in Italy for a semester,
only to fall in love very unexpectedly with an Italian chef.
I'm Lino.
My name is Amy.
I came here to experience art.
To try things I may never get to again in my life.
When I wrote the book, what I hoped most
is to erase any idea of borders,
that no matter where we are on the planet,
we all carry the same essential things in our heart.
You can't imagine how different Florence is from where I grew up.
-Texas. -That's right.
What was very compelling to me is
I was able to familiarize with being married into an Italian culture.
It is a culture that comes with so much passion,
but it also comes with so much history and that can never be broken.
In Italy, we have a saying, "Love rules without rules."
Food is really a love language throughout the series,
and the way we love changes over a lifetime.
Allow me to cook for you at my restaurant.
We wanted the food to evolve and expand and contract,
and we watch their love story crack open, literally,
when he cooks for her, and it is exquisite to watch.
I think we can be something great.
Fairy-tale love. Those kind of stories aren't for girls like us.
What if this ain't a story, Amy?
From Scratch is breaking down the walls of what it means to be family.
-Nice to meet you. -Yes. Hey, I just met you, man.
It's removing the cultural boundaries that we tend to put up,
because we do not speak the same language, because we do not make the same food.
What's going on with you and your family, son?
My dad is very disappointed with every choice I've ever made.
Difference is the thing that pulls you together,
and that's what From Scratch does.
Those people out there are my crazy family,
and the people in Sicily are your crazy family.
But this right now going forward, this is our family.
I think it's a big love story, and it's a big life story.
We really in life, I feel, are destined to remake our lives,
at least once, if not many, many times.
I think all of us will have our From Scratch moments
where we are looking at our lives
and something doesn't look the way we imagined it to look,
and we begin from where we are.
With our hearts open and some curiosity, we go forward.
With you by my side, no dream is too big.
Tembi deserves her story to be told, with all heart and all commitment.
She just has this beautiful ability
to always see the half fullness of every situation,
and that was very captivating for me.
When you really love somebody, you respect them through the hard times
in a way that reassures them that love is always present.
And the bottommost line is no matter what happens, I love you.
Italians love a good love story, and ours is for the ages.
You don't have to have a lot of stuff to make something beautiful
and to live an artful and beautiful life.
And you can do it from scratch.