The Washington Post, May 8th, 1994
IN Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel's heroine, Tita de la Garza, is born on the kitchen table. It is no idle metaphor. The rest of Tita's life is as tied to the alchemy that rises from that wooden slab as it is to the family that gathers around it. She becomes a conjurer of food, a sorceress; and the concoctions that issue from her cauldrons have the power to change her world: Tears cried into the cake batter set an entire wedding congregation to weeping about lost loves; rose-petal sauce from a frustrated lover's bouquet sets a naked sen~orita scooting across the Mexican prairie like ...
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