re: Like Water for Chocolate

Title: Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Author: Esquivel, Laura
ISBN: 0385420161 (hardcover), 038542017X (paperback)
Publisher: Doubleday c1992 (hardcover), Anchor c 1994 (paperback)

This is the title of the only book that I could find.

From the Library of Congress Catalog. You can request an Interlibrary Loan from any public library.

LC Control Number: 91047188
Type of Material: Text (Book, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Brief Description: Esquivel, Laura, 1950-
Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies / Laura Esquivel ; translated by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen.
1st ed.
Como agua para chocolate. English
New York : Doubleday, 1992.
245 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN 0385420161
This book is in English.

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.

This book can be purchased from several used book vendors.

Hopes this helps,
Halyna

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Editor's note:

Recipes are included in the book:
Like Water for Chocolate (click here to search inside this book or to purchase)