Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies / Laura Esquivel ; translated by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen
By: Esquivel, Laura.
Contributor(s): Christensen, Carol | Christensen, Thomas.
New York, NY, USA : Anchor Books, ©1992Description: 245 pages ; 21 cm.ISBN: 038542017X (pbk); 9780385420174 (pbk).Uniform titles: Como agua para chocolate. Subject(s): Family -- Mexico -- Fiction | Cookery, Mexican | Mexico -- FictionGenre/Form: Love storiesDDC classification: 863 Es69 Summary: The last of three daughters, Tita is saddled with a terrible responsibility that tradition carries down: in well-born Mexican families, the youngest daughter must remain unmarried and stay at home to care for her mother in old age. When she falls in love, Mama Elena refuses to bend the rules, and forces Tita to reject her suitor and assume the role of family cook. The result is a clash of wills that brings magic, love, sex, and fabulously good food to a previously unknown level of enjoyment.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Translation of: Como agua para chocolate.
The last of three daughters, Tita is saddled with a terrible responsibility that tradition carries down: in well-born Mexican families, the youngest daughter must remain unmarried and stay at home to care for her mother in old age. When she falls in love, Mama Elena refuses to bend the rules, and forces Tita to reject her suitor and assume the role of family cook. The result is a clash of wills that brings magic, love, sex, and fabulously good food to a previously unknown level of enjoyment.
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