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I read Como Agua Para Chocolate in high school. At the time my mother had a rule that if I wanted to see a movie, I had to read the book first, because for the most part, the book is better. She maintains the rule to this day, which I have passed along to my children.
Laura Esquivel's debut novel focuses on a Mexican family at the turn of the 20th century. The heroine Tita is the youngest daughter in her family and according to her family tradition is not allowed to marry. Rather she is supposed ...more
Laura Esquivel's debut novel focuses on a Mexican family at the turn of the 20th century. The heroine Tita is the youngest daughter in her family and according to her family tradition is not allowed to marry. Rather she is supposed ...more
Oct 17, 2008
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5***** and a ❤
UPDATE: Sept 2013
On her death, Tita’s recipe book falls to her grandniece, who then relates the story of her extraordinary relative. The novel takes place in the early 1900s on a ranch in northern Mexico, near the Texas border. The youngest of three sisters, Tita is destined from birth to stay at home to care for her mother, denied the option of love and marriage and her own family. But her attraction to the son of a neighbor rancher, Pedro, will not be so easily dismissed.
The poe ...more
UPDATE: Sept 2013
On her death, Tita’s recipe book falls to her grandniece, who then relates the story of her extraordinary relative. The novel takes place in the early 1900s on a ranch in northern Mexico, near the Texas border. The youngest of three sisters, Tita is destined from birth to stay at home to care for her mother, denied the option of love and marriage and her own family. But her attraction to the son of a neighbor rancher, Pedro, will not be so easily dismissed.
The poe ...more
Passionate Tita is in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. So when Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking -- and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares. This magical romance is a feast for the senses. The love affair is so torrid, that actual fires start.
I am caught up in my feelings of love for Tita, Pedro, John, and Gertrudis. Mama Elena, on the other hand.......
I am caught up in my feelings of love for Tita, Pedro, John, and Gertrudis. Mama Elena, on the other hand.......
A mystical journey of the culinary senses and human emotions is the best way to describe Like Water for Chocolate. The story revolves around a family of women and the strong emotions in their relationships with one another and the other main characters of the story.
Organized into the months of the year, which spans over decades of time, each chapter opens with one of Tia’s, the protagonist, recipes. Each recipe is nurtured with a wide range of emotions that correlate to Tia’s current life condit ...more
Organized into the months of the year, which spans over decades of time, each chapter opens with one of Tia’s, the protagonist, recipes. Each recipe is nurtured with a wide range of emotions that correlate to Tia’s current life condit ...more
