Check out these Day of the Dead workshops Sep 18, 2009
All this leads up to the concert itself, which will feature music by local composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Jose Pablo Moncayo's lively and colorful Mexican "Huapango," plus an appearance by "Like Water for Chocolate" author Laura Esquivel, who has composed witty "calaveras" poems for the occasion. Workshops: Wed. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Campy gore, stoner noir provide guilty pleasure Sep 6, 2009
Had this plot been at all convincing, or had she constructed a magical world we could believe, a la Laura Esquivel ( Like Water for Chocolate ) then this fluff and nonsense may have actually been literature. She had the makings of a fine novel and instead gave us yet more forgettable pop culture. (Boston Globe)
Cinema's tasty treats Aug 7, 2009
"Like Water for Chocolate" (1992) -- Based on the popular novel by Laura Esquivel, the film follows the story of Tita, a beautiful young woman who is forced to stay at home and care for her mother while her sister marries Pedro, the man Tita loves. From then on, the food that she cooks is imbued with all of the passion she feels but cannot express. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Ode to chocolates Jul 26, 2009
Two that come to mind are Like Water For Chocolate (a 1989 Laura Esquivel novel that was later turned into a film in 1993), and Chocolat, a 2000 movie starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. And it has even been taken up as names, like English pop group Hot Chocolate, and India-based hotel group, Chocolate Hotels. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
5Top: Movies that revolve around eating Jul 23, 2009
Mexican cuisine gets a series of delectable close-ups in this adaptation of the Laura Esquivel novel (featuring a screenplay by Esquivel herself). Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). (MSNBC -- News)
Summer hours at library begin June 1 May 28, 2009
Spellbindingly charming, Allen s impressively accomplished debut novel will bewitch fans of Alice Hoffman and Laura Esquivel as her entrancing brand of magic realism nimbly blends the evanescent desires of hopeless romantics with the inherent wariness of those who have been hurt once too often. The next meeting of the Daytime Book Discussion Group will be Tuesday, June 16 at 1:30 p.m. The selection for the month is The Likeness by Tana French. (Holbrook Sun, MA)
Romantic Movies Improve Spanish Lan... May 24, 2009
Como agua para chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate [1992] is based on the novel by Laura Esquivel ... Directed by Alfonso Arau; screenplay by Laura Esquivel. (Suite101.com)
