Like Water for Chocolate, Days of Being Wild, Les Félins

Like Water for Chocolate (1992) | dir. Alfonso Arau

Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambè in Like Water for Chocolate (Royal Ballet 2022)

Como agua para chocolate, 1992

“What’s wrong with you?”

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

#Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate)

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“As you see, within our bodies each of us has the elements needed to produce phosphorus. And let me tell you something I've never told a soul. My grandmother had a very interesting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches. For a moment we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. Each person has to discover what will set off those explosions in order to live, since the combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes the soul. That fire, in short, is its food. If one doesn't find out in time what will set off these explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted. If that happens, the soul flees from the body and goes to wander among the deepest shades, trying in vain to find food to nourish itself, unaware that only the body it left behind, cold and defenseless, is capable of providing that food.

That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished.

There are many ways to dry out a box of damp matches, but you can be sure, there is a cure.

You must of course take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origin we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.”

(ESQUIVEL, Laura. Chapter Six; June: A Recipe for Making Matches; Like Water for Chocolate, 1994)

Codornices en pétalos de rosas

III. Marzo

INGREDIENTES:

12 rosas, de preferencia rojas

12 castañas

2 cucharadas de mantequilla

2 cucharadas de fécula de maíz

2 gotas de esencia de rosas

2 cucharadas de anís

2 cucharadas de miel

2 ajos

6 codornices

1 pithaya

Manera de hacerse:

Se desprenden con mucho cuidado los pétalos de las rosas, procurando no pincharse los dedos, pues aparte de que es muy doloroso (el piquete), los pétalos pueden quedar impregnados de sangre y esto, aparte de alterar el sabor del platillo, puede provocar reacciones químicas, por demás peligrosas.

Como agua para chocolate, 1992

- Laura Esquivel

sumina sasaki photographed during a rehearsal of christopher wheeldon's like water for chocolate by camilla greenwell

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

#Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate)

Common - The Light [2000]

One doesn’t think about love. Either one feels it, or one doesn’t. I am a man of few, but firm words, and I swear you’ll have my love forever.

- Pedro Muzquiz, Como Agua Para Chocolate 1992

I haven’t read the book yet since I’m hoping to read it in the original spanish, but GODDDD Marco Leonardi is so handsome in the 1992 film

Like Water for Chocolate (1992) | dir. Alfonso Arau

Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambè in Like Water for Chocolate (Royal Ballet 2022)  

If you loved The Cook of Castamar and want to read something with similar vibes, I recommend Like Water for Chocolate.

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)