Year : 1989
Language : Spanish

Author(s)  : Laura Esquivel
Original title : Como agua para chocolate
Translator  : Carol and Thomas Christensen
Country : Mexico
Language : Spanish
Genre(s) : Novel

Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a popular novel published in 1989 by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel.
The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita who longs her entire life to marry her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother’s upholding of the family tradition of the youngest daughter not marrying but taking care of her mother until the day she dies. Tita is only able to express herself when she cooks.