content: "Like Water for Chocolate," by Laura Esquivel, is a book that helds every element of life within its pages. The reader is able to experience love, tragedy, sadness, happiness, and all other emotions that are in-between. It is a story told by the great niece of the main character, Tita De La Garza. By using recipes and remedies, Esquivel is able to portray the life of young gilr in love, and the effects that her family had on her quest of marrying her true love.The only part of the book that would need work would be the theme development. At first the recipes were great, they were useful in allowing Esquivel to bind the importance of emotional affects people have on other people. All the recipes did start to become repetative. It would have been more