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Summary: What's better than a book about food? (oh but so much more!)
Review: The story, "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel, is by far one of the best novels I have ever read. It is a novel that appeals to all of the five human senses, which makes you want to read the story from beginning to end without putting it down.
The author, Laura Esquivel, now lives in Mexico. She was originally a screenwriter. Her screenplay "Chido One" is the film version of "Like Water for Chocolate," which is also very excellent. In 1994, this book won the prestigious ABBY award, which is given by the American Booksellers Association to the book the members of the association enjoyed the most.
What makes this book great is that you not only get to read an exciting story, but you also learn how to cook. At the beginning of every chapter there is a new recipe to be made. All of the ingredients are listed and the preparation is given along with the story. Since this book is written in monthly installments, there are exactly twelve recipes; one for each month.
This book is filled with magical realism. Almost everything in the story is symbolic and full of emotion, especially the food. My mother always told me that, "the food comes out better when you're happy." "Like Water for Chocolate" portrays this saying, but with so much more. Not only happiness, but anger, love, passion, lust, and depression goes into the food, which cause the people who eat it to do some crazy things.
Like I said before, this book appeals to all of the five senses. Everything is told in such detail that you can easily imagine yourself being in the story. You can imagine yourself being there with the characters, seeing what they see, hearing what they hear, feeling what they feel, smelling what they smell, and tasting every piece of food that they eat. It is truly an amazing experience and I recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: Like Water for Chocolate
Review: This novel brought forth an odd perspective of the affect food and family can have on all of our lives. It relates emotion and feeling to the taste and preparation of the recipes and meals within its lines. Food becomes a form of communication through the meals in this book. This book not only holds recipes though, it tells a story of lost love, and of finding oneself. It teaches us never to give up on finding what/who one loves in life. This is a great book that I definetly enjoyed reading.
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Summary: Mrs chausse's class
Review: Like water for Chocolate is a wonderful novel focused around magical realism and true love. Esquivel creativly interweaves the emotions of Tita with her wonderful food. The story is told throught the eyes of Tita's neice, who looks up to Tita and admires her exquisite recipes. Tita's cooking is so powerful it affects the emotions of all the people who eat it. The love triangle between Tita, Pedro, and her sister kept me flipping each page rapidly. The story is interesting all the way through. It is packed with family drama, love, death, and teenage rebellion. It is a story that can be easily related to at least one aspect of each person's life who reads this book. I highly recommend Like Water for Chocolate for all readers.
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Summary: like water for chocolate
Review: Like Water For Chocolate is a great book for all groups of people. If you like romance, and mystical novels this is the book for you. It was a little complecated to understand at times but I loved it. Coming from a haspanic background I realted to this novel and that may be why I liked it so much. I would recamend this book to teen girls it is an easy read and a very mature book. The recepies were great too.
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Summary: Like water for chocolate
Review: I think that this book was one of the funniest books that I have read. If you like fantasy this is the book for you, it has a lot of magical realism in it. This book was written on a monthly base instead of chapters and each month has a different Mexican dish that goes with what the main character Tita is making for her family. I really enjoyed this book and I hope that everyone that reads it enjoys it also.
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Summary: Like water for chocolate
Review: I think that this book was one of the funniest books that I have read. If you like fantasy this is the book for you, it has a lot of magical realism in it. I really enjoyed this book and I hope that everyone that reads it enjoys it also.
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Summary: LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
Review: This book is very detailed and intense that caught my eye from the moment I read the first chapter. Basically its about Tita-the youngest daughter of three. Who by family tradition is forced to take care of her mother (mama Elena) until she has die, and forget her true love (Pedro). Pedro then marries Tita's oldest sister (Rosaura) so that he can be next to Tita. The only thing that keeps her strong is her talent. She was born with the talent for cooking. Which is one of the reasons why every chapter starts off with a recipe. She based all her emotions in her cooking. The one thing I disliked about this novel would have to be how it goes on and on about the recipes. I like how every chapter starts off with a recipe, but maybe if it was a little shorter I would read the whole thing through. Most of the time I would just read the first sentences and then just skip to the rest of the chapter. Another thing I disliked would be the Rosaura, she plays the character of Tita's sister. She's so greedy, she knows that Tita loves pedro and still she decides to marry him. Not even thinking how her sister feels. The character that made me want to keep reading this book and that caught my eye was Tita. Despite her family tradition and knowing that she would probably never marry, she still remained strong. Also when she wasn't taking of her mom she would spend most of the time in the kitchen. She devoted herself to the kitchen. She struggled a lot with her mom but it all turned out for the best at the end. Its kind of like a happily ever after story.
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Summary: A Great Hispanic event
Review: The book I read was called Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival. This book tells a story of Tita De La Garza. Tita is the youngest daughter in her family. She struggles to pursue her true love and seek indipendence to get away from her mom. Tita's love, Pedro Muzquiz, comes to ask for her hand in marriage. Tita is forbidden to marry according to her mother's tradition. Pedro goes of to marry Tita's older sister Rosaura to be close to Tita. This is a great book because this book gives you a brief look on how hispanic culture is and the struggles hispanic siblings with tradition.
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Summary: Like water for chocolate
Review: The book Like Water For Chocolate was an excellent tale full of romance and an extreme amount of Mexican cooking.
Tita the main character of the story was a mexican girl who was the youngest of three daughters and when your the youngest you have the responsibility of taking care of your mother until she passes. Tita was not aloud to get married or have and type of love relattionship like that. She was raised in the kitchen and when she cooked all of her emotions were poured into the meal.
The story has some racey spots in it were Tita and Pedro secretly share their love for one another, which was outrageously wrong because Pedro is married to Rosaura Titas sister.
This book was full of magic realism which holds your attention when reading it. I really enjoyed this book and I recomend that people read it. It shows you the different culture that these people had, the way they handled different situations and how they lived. It was an excellent book!!!
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Summary: Like Water for Chocolate, a great book
Review: This book is a very excellent book. It is one of the best books I have ever read. It has a lot of magical realism so if that is what you like, and you have a good imagination you will love this book. This is also a love story so it is a girly book. Sorry boys, unless you like lovey-dovey stories this book isn't for you. This book has a lot of sexual content, and it describes it in every detail. so it is more of an adult book. All in all, i thought this was a wonderful book, and i recommend it to anyone with a real imagination.
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