Title: Like water for chocolate
Author: Laura Esquivel
This is the story of Tita, a spirited young woman who was born on a kitchen table (full of delicious ingredients) in Mexico at the end of the 19th century.
In this traditional back ground, she sets out to live her life as she wants to, sometimes against her family's wishes; guided by all the kitchen flavours she experienced since birth, she sets out to conquer Pedro, whom she has fallen in love with, to live happily ever after.
This keeps her busy cooking and working out which foods can make her family members become malleable to her wishes; she cooks a dish to make her sister stay in bed and unable to meet Pedro, whose company she covets.
This story is hot (caliente), just like the water needed to make the chocolate sauce...The language is colourful and the style is lively, in the vein of Spanish speaking writers.
This story is hot (caliente), just like the water needed to make the chocolate sauce...The language is colourful and the style is lively, in the vein of Spanish speaking writers.
Available in English, Spanish, Italian and Dutch as print, eBook, audio book and DVD in Spanish with English subtitles.
Esquirel, Laura “Like water for chocolate”,
New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1995, ©1989
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