Like Water for Chocolate is characterized as a novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by its own author Laura Esquivel. Its subtitle stands as a welcome and an inviter for women everywhere. The novel intricately weaves through its narrative motifs like love, passion, sorrow and oppression. Esquivel uses stylistic features such as the simile in the title, the metaphor in the quail in rose petal sauce scene and the overall symbol of food to present and further explain the theme of escaping from tradition as a means for women's self-empowerment and liberation.…
