Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies. English
- New York Doubleday & Company 1950
- 246
A culinary romance set in Mexico. Condemned by tradition to look after her tyrannical mother and remain a spinster, Tita finds her destiny in the kitchens of the family ranch. Her recipes for Mexican dishes are woven into the story of her doomed romance with Pedro, her brother-in-law.