Esquivel, Laura - Cecelia Lawless (essay date 1997)
Cecelia Lawless (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: “Cooking, Community, Culture: A Reading of Like Water for Chocolate,” in Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories, University of Massachusetts Press, 1997, pp. 216–35.
[In the following essay, Lawless claims that Like Water for Chocolate can not be easily classified as simply a novel or simply a cookbook; it contains the elements of both genres. Lawless gives detailed examples of this genre blending.]
Laura Esquivel has written an unclassifiable work that simultaneously breaks and brings together boundaries of genre so as to concoct something new in Mexican literature. Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies, or in the original Spanish, Como agua para chocolate: Novela de entregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios caseros1 is a mixture of community recipe book, how-to...
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