Resumo de Like Water For Chocolate

A Mexican and subsequently international bestselling novel, the book is an enchantingly original story that takes us on a journey of Mexican spices and flavors, and through that, on a parallel journey through the landscape of a Mexican, and yet so universal, love story. A kitchen love story, if you wish.

Many of us would agree that exploring the realm of flavors of an exquisite dish is something of a passionate adventure. And creating such a dish even more so. Thus if you can relate the excitement of tingling your taste buds with wonderful aromas with the trembling of a teenage heart in love, then this book was written for you. But even if kitchen is not your domain and good food is just a mere time pass for you, the originality and charm of this book can hardly escape you.

Following the passing of months in a calendar fashion, the chapters of this book tell the story of a young girl?s forbidden yet incessant love. And as the months unfold, so does the love story, as told through the recipes, taste buds teasers, flavors, aromas and smells that she concocts in an almost wizardly fashion. Living her sensual love story through the most basic human senses ? touch, smell, taste ? the story explores her love through the alchemy of senses as expressed in her exotic mind-boggling recipes. Rose petal sauce, chilies, quail, sesame seeds and other delicate flavors mix in the most unexpected combinations, perfectly following the sinusoidal unraveling of this love story.

Following somewhat the wide-spread saying that the way to a man?s heart is through his stomach, cookery scales to the dimensions of a pure communication form in this novel, as the young lovers only means of ?talking? to each other is limited to having their meals together, in the family. Ingeniously devising her recipes, the young girl-woman storyteller of this book thus elicits the strangest reactions from the ?victims? of her cooking. Her love is passionate and spicy as the chilly-loaded recipes that she masters so well in her only realm ? the kitchen. And as the kitchen fire ripens her delicious dishes, so does the fire of passion ripen this ever-lasting love, literally lighting up everything around it in the end.

Although showing signs of a beginner?s book, and at times one does wish the writing style would match up with the swirl of imagination spurn out by the writer, the book is nevertheless serving up flavors infused with love, hatred or jealousy - recipes that you will find nowhere else - and that alone makes Laura Esquivel?s book one of its kind. Moreover, the book is a genuine cookbook, for those interested, clearly intending to revive old forgotten Mexican flavors in a story-like manner.

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