![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, as the last of three daughters, she takes care of her mother – Mama Elena – until she dies. Tita De La Garda, the main character of the book, is a young and submissive woman who can’t marry her love, Pedro, because of family traditions. Like Water for Chocolate appears like a diary written by a niece who tells her great-aunt’s life. The text also has a subtitle: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies that summarises in a sentence all the themes confronted in the story. The title refers to a Spanish expression mainly used in Latin America, where people use boiled water – and not milk – to make hot chocolate. Esquivel was also a teacher, a screenwriter, and a politician in the Local Council of Mexico City. It was published in Mexico, then translated from Spanish to English in 1992, and the same year it appeared as a film based on the novel. The Mexican writer Laura Esquivel wrote her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, in 1989. ![]()
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