Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies.
| Publisher | Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Publication | The Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0276-0045 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | v13 |
| Issue | n2 |
| Published | 1993-06-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | Carol Christensen |
| Reviewee | n/a | Thomas Christensen |
| Reviewee | n/a | Laura Esquivel |
| Author | n/a | Marisa Januzzi |
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Jacket copy reveals Doubleday's amusing attempts to buffer this accomplished first novel for its American market: "Evocative of How to Make an American Quilt in structure ... and Heartburn in its irony and wit, it is a lively and funny tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico." An appreciative blurb from Diana Kennedy, an American expert on Mexican cooking, completes the scatter-brained introductory picture. (Just imagine reading a physician's authenticating remarks on the cover of The Death of Artemio Cruz, if you don't see my point.) Fortunately, this 1990 Mexican...
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