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We feed those we love, we express ourselves by cooking, and we seek to impress by providing feasts and displays of food. Much influenced by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the grand author of Magical Realism (where the everyday can take on supernatural consequences), Laura Esquival’s ‘Como Agua Como Chocolate’
closely connects food, love and family. In this story, the chef’s inner emotions have a physical effect on those that eat her food, whether cooking with sadness in her heart
makes the guests violently ill, or cooking with the rose petals given to her by her true love causes uncontrollable lust to all those that eat it.
