Como agua para chocolate : novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores, y remedios caseros

Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita, who longs for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition: the youngest daughter cannot marry, but instead must take care of her mother until she dies. Tita is only able to express herself when she cooks. Esquivel employs magical realism to combine the supernatural with the ordinary throughout the novel. The novel won the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award for Adult Trade in 1994. La joven Tita vive en tiempos de la Revolución Mexicana. Las reglas en su casa son estrictas y en ocasiones irracionables. Su madre insiste en que la última hija de una mujer debe dedicar su vida a atender a su madre, así que Tita debe entregarse completamente al servicio familiar y olvidar el amor y el matrimonio. Sólo al cocinar puede expresar sus pasiones, pero al comer sus platos especiales, la otra gente experimenta los mismos sentimientos A young girl named Tita longs her entire life for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her domineering mother's traditional belief that the youngest daughter must not marry but take care of her mother until the day she dies. Tita is only able to express her passions and feelings through her cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what she feels Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother. A combination fairy tale, melodrama, romance, Mexican cookbook, and home remedy handbook