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LAURA ESQUIVEL ha inaugurado un nuevo género literario: la cocina-ficción. En esta sorprendente novela, COMO AGUAPARA CHOCOLATE, novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios caseros, todo gira en torno a la cocina. Cada capítulo se abre con una extraordinaria (y perfectamente realizable) receta, en torno a la cual no sólo se aglutinan los comensales que las consumen sino que se "cuecen" y "cuajan" amores y desamores, risas y llantos (sobre todo risas), en una palabra, una cocina - espacio y función - donde se celebra el triunfo de la alegría y de la vida sobre la tristeza y la muerte. ... Read more

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Like Water For Chocolate is a deceptively simple book - a love story set in Mexico, interspersed with recipes, related in unadorned, uncomplicated language. Yet when the ingredients are combined and simmer, subtle and unusual flavors emerge. On one level, this is the story of Tita, youngest daughter of the formidable matriarch Mama Elena who forbids Tita to marry her true love Pedro because tradition says that the youngest daughter must care for her mother until her death. When Pedro marries Tita's oldest sister in order to be near Tita, it begins a life-long conflict filled with passion, deception, anger, and pure love. Interwoven throughout the narrative are the recipes, which, like an ancient Greek chorus, provide an ongoing metaphorical commentary on the characters and their culture. Finally, there is the food itself that Tita creates as head cook on the family ranch, food so vibrant and sensual, so imbued with her feelings of longing, frustration, rebellion, or love, that it affects everyone who eats it. The combination of all these elements, with a good measure of the supernatural thrown in, makes for an earthy, quirky book, sad and funny, passionate, and direct, told by Tita's grand-niece who follows in her footsteps, using her cookbook and continuing a tradition quite different from the one her great-grandmother tried to impose. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Erreway, Teen Angels, Ricardo Montaner, Diego Torres, Isol, Mambrú, Laura Natalia Esquivel, Dorismar, Ivonne Guzmán, Valeria Gastaldi, Trix, Hilda Lizarazu. Excerpt:Diego Torres Diego Antonio Caccia Torres (born March 9, 1971 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is an Argentine Grammy Award -nominated pop singer and composer. His mother was the Argentine singer Lolita Torres. Biography In 1991, Diego Torres' music career began with a band called "La Marca." Later, he began his first steps on TV starring in the successful TV series "La Banda del Golden Rocket" which stayed on air for three years. He loved soccer In 1992, he launched his first album, "Diego Torres," produced by Cachorro López. This album was rewarded 3 times platinum. Two years later, and a little distant from TV, he launched his second album called "Tratar de estar mejor" which received 5 platinum albums in Argentina and gold and platinum albums in other Latin American countries. This album launched Torres to the international scene. In 1996, the Italian producer Celso Valli produced Torres' third album, "Luna Nueva" , and months later Diego started touring with his band all across Latin America, United States , and Spain . The album went on sale, soon becoming gold and quickly being rewarded with the platinum in Argentina. In 1999, he recorded his fourth album called "Tal Cual Es" , produced by Cachorro López. This album showed Diego's talent and creativity to compose and mix different Latin sounds, such as flamenco guitars as well as various other tropical sounds. His next album was named "Un Mundo Diferente" which was recorded in the second half of 2001 in Buenos Aires and Miami . This album presents a variety of styles and merges with several Latin rhythm styles in most songs, such as in his most successful song s... ... Read more

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This book is a very easy read. I read it for an English class for college. As far as the plot goes there are better endings, but the symbolism and the "deepness" of the book is great! ... Read more