Like Water for Chocolate

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Summary: Emotionally moving with just a touch of the stuff of dreams
Review: I loved it. A simple story of love that is forbidden and how true love can't be stopped, nor is it required to be totally physical. Over lovingly prepared food the romance of dreams takes place. With just a tad of romantic magic and fantasy this tale touches the heart in a way that makes you want to go out and cook something truly special for that someone who is truly special. You need to find the perfect ingredients to fill the recipe with the most sensual elements. It takes lovemaking to new heights.

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Summary: None alike before*****
Review: This book was recommended by all teachers who read it in our school, being a very slow reader -English is my second laguage- it took me 12 hours to finish. Though the book tell the story in monthly installments, starts on Jan and ends in Dec. It tells the story of a 22 years of suffuring a desperate love. Tita, a very simple girl or a very sticked to traditions family, goes on cooking and adds her feelings within the ingrediens, in which affects the people who eat her cocking afterwards!!! I think the best part is when eldest daughter got on fire affected by the cocking.. couldn't be better.. Though Laura Esquivel gets carried away on many occaisions, like when Tita started to cry and wet the 2 story house with her tears, when the chickens cause a herocain that takes Tita off her feet, when the heet of Gurtruides body steems up all the water in the tank!! and the fire works or Tita and Pedro when they make love.. and the fire.. I guess this is what makes the story special and unique.. I hated pedro sooooo much, I wished if had died when the fire cought him when he was all drunk and singing.. Tita preference to experienced love to a sentimental one is very anderstandable to me, sorry I got her dead instead of pragnent, made her a mistress instead of a mother.. guess nobody gets everything ever.. Great, Great, wonderful, most enjoyable, book. makes you experience all kind of feelings.. Read it..

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Summary: A COMPLETELY BRILLIANT NOVEL
Review: Under instructions to chose a cultural novel for my literature class, I reluctantly picked up Like Water for Chocolate because it seemed like "easy-reading" and not incredibly long. I, however, was immediately draw into this tale of love, deception, and family ties. This book drew me in to the point that it was impossible to put down. The symbolism is striking as the recipes relate and tie into the main story. The recipe for matches was especially interesting, as we saw Dr. John try to "light Tita's inner fire" like Pedro had. Though almost as depressing as a Shakespeare ending, Like Water for Chocolate was an overall brilliant novel and most enjoyable. (even for a stressed out junior looking for an easy "A")

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Summary: This story gives you monthly recipes, love, anger, history.
Review: Like Water for Chocolate is a story about monthly recipes, love, anger, history etc... Close to the beggining of the century, Esquivel brings the reader the story of Mama Elena and her three daughters. The younger one Tita, was destined to take care of her mother till she died. This meant that she coudn't get married until this happened. Pedro, Tita's soulmate, marries Tita's sister in order to be close to her. The story brings a magic realism that sparkles with Tita's recipes. Whatever she was feeling while cooking transferred to the people who ate the food. Trough the story we see the Mexican Revolution and how people went back and fort from Mexico and U.S. The plot is very well mixed with emotions, we see how Tita and Pedro fight for their love trough the novel.

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Summary: JUST GREAT!!!
Review: This book is a magnificent piece of art. It is refreshing, funny, sensual, but still deep and full of meaning and tradition. I just loved it!!!

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Summary: A mystical Mexican love story in monthly installments.
Review: LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE up to this point in my life has been the best book I have read. Once I started reading the first chapter I didn't want to put the book down for nothing. This book was so intresting that I started reading it for my own self and not because I had to read a book. I usually don't like reading books because they put me to sleep and their boring so they don't catch my attention. But this book was good for its Mexican cook book included into every chapter and its simply wonderful sex and love story. So if you like love stories and like to cook dishes, I would suggest you to read: LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE by Laura Esquivel.

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Summary: The story of a girl in love you can't get none!!!!!!
Review: Like Water For Chocolate i great book by Laura Esquivel. It's the story of a girl who falls in love, but because if her family's tradition, being the youngest of the girls, she isn't allowed to marry. It is very entertaining how it shows how food can be a way to get away from everyday problems. I highly recommend this novel to everyone.

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Summary: The story of how a girl falls in love and her torments.
Review: Like Water For Chocolate With Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel has written a novel about a Mexican love story that charms the palate and the heart. It is a novel written in monthly installments with a combination of romances and recipes. The story opens during the Mexican Revolution with the main character Tita not even born yet. While onions are chopped in the kitchen, even Tita, still in Mama Elena's womb, cries. Tita is raised in the kitchen. The smells and the different tastes are her life. There isn't anything that Tita doesn't eat, except onions. The onions make her cry. Tita is the youngest of Mama Elena's three daughters. Rosaura is the oldest, and Gertrudis in the middle. Tita is brilliant in the kitchen. As a baby they have to put food in whatever room of the house that she was in, or she will cry. Tita meets Pedro at a dinner reception and they fall in love instantly. Pedro asks for her hand in marriage but is denied. An old tradition in Tita's family says that the youngest daughter will never marry because she has to take care of her mother until her death. Pedro then marries Rosaura, Tita's sister, but only to be close to Tita. His love for her only grows stronger. Tita prepares the wedding cake. She cries in the batter because she thinks that Pedro doesn't love her. At the wedding reception, the strangest thing happens. Everyone who eats the cake begins to cry over their lost loves. Then everyone begins to vomit after they finish crying. Pedro and Rosaura have a child that Tita loves like her own. His name is Roberto. A few months later Roberto dies and Tita can't take it. She an American Dr. John, and runs away with him to the United States. Dr. John falls in love with Tita but she won't marry him because she still loves Pedro. While in the U.S., she gets terrible news. Little Roberto dies of malnutrition. But not only that, also her mother gets killed by some white soldiers. After all the bad news, Tita finally gets some good news. Pedro and Rosaura have another child. This time they have a girl. The time passes, but Pedro and Tita's love only grows stronger. After many years of digestive problems, Rosaura dies in the lingering odor of her own gas. Then many years after Rosaura's death, her daughter marries John's son. Finally Tita and Pedro can be together. Pedro and Tita make passionate love, but in the sheer moment of Pedro's ecstacy, Pedro's heart suddenly stops and he dies. Tita can't bear the pain of losing Pedro, so she kills herself by eating a box of matches. Laura Esquivel presents a wonderfully written, Mexican Romeo & Juliet. They are like Romeo & Juliet because Mama Elena, Tita's mother, doesn't not allow them to be together. Also in the end, Tita takes her own life because of Pedro. She writes the book in monthly installments, with a different recipe each month. This format that she chooses, in my opinion, is very good. It keeps the reader interested because you always want to know what happens in the next month, and what recipe she makes. Her recipes are very important in the story. She uses food as an interpreter of the characters' feelings. For instance, earlier in the story Pedro gives Tita some roses. Mama Elena told Tita she must get rid of them, but instead, she uses them in her recipe. She makes Quail in Rose Petal Sauce. Since the roses are given to Tita with love from Pedro, when they eat the delicious bird everyone begins to feel hot and they feel a strong feeling between all of them. Gertrudis even has an orgasm at the dinner table, and was so hot that she spontaneously combusts and catches on fire. She has to run to the shower. She shows how peoples' emotions are more powerful than anything. The message that I think she gives, is that nothing is more powerful than love. That love can make people sick, make them cry, and make them smile. Laura Esquivel shows that love can push people to the edge of life. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever been in love, or knows someone in love. It is a wonderful story of love, sex, and war in Revolutionary Mexico. It's like the De La Garza family has their own revolution in their home. They have a revolution of love.

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Summary: Melts in your mind not in your hand.
Review: This book was a fantastic book filled with awesome detail and alluring scenes. This book, I must have to say, made me shed tears as I read about Tita and her eduring her mother's ruling hand. It was easy reading and yet had a complex story line in it with the twist and turns it takes us through with Tita and her family/friend's. Great, great, great book.

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Summary: pure chocolate!
Review: I mistakenly picked up this book while house-sitting, needing something to lull me to sleep. Hours later, I was still greedily devouring each page, replete with the rollercoaster of emotions this book fed me, wrapped in a meaty story. Beware: this book sucks you in beyond the reach of time itself.