#Laura Esquivel

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Día 12

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

[addictivecontradiction]

Como agua para chocolate, 1992

[rafaelmartinez67]

“Ahora sé que el futuro, comienza hoy y depende

de lo que elijo ver, de lo que me permito

decir y hacer, de lo que quiero recordar

y de lo que decido amar.”

Laura Esquivel

[lamaracuchaquecuenta]

"Y le sugiero que para la próxima vez que se enamore, ¡no sea tan cobarde!"

—Laura Esquivel. Como agua para chocolate.

[suenosyfantasmas]

"La vida sería mucho más agradable si uno pudiera llevarse a donde quiera que fuera los sabores y olores de la casa materna".

Laura Esquivel. "Como agua para chocolate".

Fotografía: MAVi.

Sueños y fantasmas. El arte de soñar.

[nobeerreviews]

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

-- Laura Esquivel

(Konstanz, Germany)

[dusleraleminde]

📜Kendinden kaçmak istiyordu. Bir şey düşünmek, bir şeye karar vermek, konuşmak zorunda kalmak istemiyordu. Ağzından çıkacak sözcüklerin içindeki acıyı haykırmasından korkuyordu.✨

~Laura Esquivel, Acı Çikolata

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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

[compendio]

Queria escapar de si mesma, não queria pensar em tomar uma decisão, não queria voltar a falar. Não queria que as palavras gritassem a sua dor.

– Como água para chocolate

[historiasdeldivan]

[elaticodeganimedes]

Tita no diferenciaba bien las lágrimas de la risa de las del llanto.Para ella reír era una manera de llorar .

De igual forma confundía el gozo de vivir con el de comer. no era fácil para una persona que conocía la vida a través de la cocina entender el mundo exterior.

Libro: Como agua para Chocolate

Autora: Laura Esquivel

El ático de Ganimedes

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

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@themousefromfantasyland @the-blue-fairie @angelixgutz @giuliettaluce @princesssarisa @faintingheroine @amalthea9 @silverfoxstole @lioness--hart

“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)

[rafaelmartinez67]

“Uno se convierte en lo que mira, en lo que recuerda, en lo que anhela, en lo que transmite. Ahora sé que el futuro comienza hoy y depende de lo que elijo ver, de lo que me permito decir, de lo que quiero recordar y de lo que decido amar".

Laura Esquivel

[outragedtortilla]

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)