Title: Como agua para chocolate
Description: Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel.

The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita, who longs for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition: the youngest daughter cannot marry, but instead must take care of her mother until she dies. Tita is only able to express herself when she cooks.

Esquivel employs magical realism to combine the supernatural with the ordinary throughout the novel.

The novel won the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award for Adult Trade in 1994.
Subjects: virginity, magical realism, Self-growth, violence, passion, rebellion, food, Mexican cuisine, love at first sight, Fiction, familia, mexican cookery, mothers and daughters, sisters, Social life and customs, Cuentos de amor, Family, Family life, Man-woman relationships, Ficción, Drama, Mexican Cooking, Families, Love, Películas cinematográficas, Novela, Love stories, Literature, Cooking, Man-woman relationship, Cocina, Familias, Belletristische Darstellung, Frau, Kochen, Alltag, Manners and customs, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, regional, Mexico, fiction, Large type books, Madre e hija, Hermanas, Cocina mexicana, Teen fiction, World literature, Fiction subjects, Peoples & cultures - fiction, Fiction, romance, general
Places: Mexico, San Antonio, Texas
People: Josefita de la Garza, Pedro Muzquiz, Elena de la Garza, Gertrudis de la Garza, Rosaura de la Garza, John Brown, Nacha, Chencha, Roberto Muzquiz, Esperanza Muzquiz, Alex Brown, Nicolas, Juan Alejandrez, Jesus Martinez