From Scratch Netflix

Lino Ortolano (played by Eugenio Mastrandrea) was a charming Italian man who grew up in a small town, Castelleone, in Sicily. From childhood, he had a hunger to ...

She tried to get her daughters Amy and Zora to wed the men she preferred, but she eventually had to fall in love with their choices. She was so religious that she used to go to church to confess her anger. She might have never adjusted or compromised in any of her relationships, so she didn’t want to let his daughters down, either. She brought her child to Sicily to introduce her to her grandmother. He told his daughter through a story that he would always be connected to her through an invisible string for the rest of her life. Amy’s father, Hershel Wheeler (played by Keith David), was a successful lawyer who first encouraged Amy to pursue a career in law but ultimately gave her the freedom to follow her passion. She renewed her insurance in the interim and devoted all of her savings and attention to her husband’s medical care. Lino agreed to join since he still had a lot of things to accomplish in life. He found it very challenging to fit in with American culture at first, but he began to adjust for the sake of his love. He later left his hometown and family to pursue his career in cooking at a restaurant and started working as a chef. Amy and Lino began their romantic journey in Florence, but Amy had to come back to Los Angeles. He was not just a chef who loved to cook food, but his dishes expressed his creativity.