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'A Novel in Monthly Instalments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies'.The international bestseller.
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The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes.
A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her. For the next twenty-two years Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Each chapter begins with the details for a wonderful Mexican dish. However, as the food is prepared by a passionate young woman, a tear or a drop of blood or alike transfers her feelings to the meal. The results on the guests are spectacular. Best suited to romantic food lovers.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A passionate story of love, heartbreak and family. The plot is magically woven around the kitchen. This is a book of recipies, love and life put together in a way which was totally unexpected. The story is quite surreal in parts which was a delight and refreshingly different.
I dont like to use the word romance in fear of putting you off. There is so much more to this novel. If your a 'foodie' like me then you'll love it. If you enjoy the slighty romantic notion of family dinners round the open fire. If you love the smell of someone cooking somthing wonderful as you walk through your front door then your going to really enjoy this. Its not all idyllic though, there was enough passion and anger and suspense to let me finish it in two days !
I dont like to use the word romance in fear of putting you off. There is so much more to this novel. If your a 'foodie' like me then you'll love it. If you enjoy the slighty romantic notion of family dinners round the open fire. If you love the smell of someone cooking somthing wonderful as you walk through your front door then your going to really enjoy this. Its not all idyllic though, there was enough passion and anger and suspense to let me finish it in two days !
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The title of the book offers a fitting and versatile metaphor for the book. In Spanish, como aqua para chocolate, refers to the passions, sexual or anger, that boil over. Chocolate only melts with boiling water. Mama Elena, the domineering, controlling force of a hacienda in Mexico, suppresses her daughters but particualarly Tita De La Garza, the central character who is not allowed to "reach the boiling point" of her passions, particularly with respect to Pedro Musquiz to whom she has a passionate attachment reciprocated by him. Mama Elena forces Tita into spinsterhood so that Tita can take care of her mother as she ages. To be close to Tita, Pedro marries her sister, Rosaura. The adventures spin off from there and there is a magical element to many of them, including the exceptional recipes that Tita uses for the residents and guests of the hacienda. The book is well-written and deserves its international fame.Translator's KissSimply Irresistible [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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'Food & Gender'
Like Water for Chocolate is a delightful and delicious story, offering the reader richly layered and stimulating symbolism. Read more
Published 19 days ago by fairy mossy magic
A mixed bag
This was a very unusual book. Surreal even. It would have worked better for me if the magical stuff was toned down a bit because it was verging on silly - what with hens triggering... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Sid
Gorgeously Sensual!
A little treat of a book, both a passionate love story and a mouthwatering selection of recipes!
Tita, the beautiful youngest daughter of Mexican matriarch Mamma Elena,... Read more
Tita, the beautiful youngest daughter of Mexican matriarch Mamma Elena,... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Kate Hopkins
Simply mouth-watering!
After reading this book it's not hard to understand why this has been such a best-seller across the world, because this novel is utterly beautiful- a real feast of a story, if... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Nicola F (Nic)
for cooking enthusiasts with a weekness for romance
This book is very cheesy at times. It also reminds me of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - fantastical, improbable things happen throughout the book but the... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Anna Drops
A book for food loving poets
When I come across fiction in translation I often read it on the principle that someone somewhere thought the story good enough to spend time translating it into English. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Bowery H. Mrs
A burning sensuous tale
A gorgeous Mexican feast of cookery, passion and heartache. In the magical realist tradition, it's about a young woman learning to express herself and find love. A beautiful book.
Published 22 months ago by F. Tibbitt
Too unbelievable
I didn't really enjoy this book, it stretched my imagination rather too far. I read it for a book group so I did persevere to the end but it was not a rewarding read. Read more
Published on 23 May 2010 by DubaiReader
A tale of passion interlaced with magic and recipes!
I have never read a book quite like this before. Set in and around a Mexican kitchen it weaves a tale of love and hate - interspersed with recipes for the dishes which the heroine... Read more
Published on 23 May 2010 by Polly Perkins
Absolutely terrible
This is possibily the most pointless book I have every read. Although quite an easy read I think you have to be on a different planet to understand the story. Terrible. Read more
Published on 8 May 2010 by J. Bell
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