![]() The book starts with tempting and delicious simplicity - 'Take care to chop the onion fine' - and by the end of the first page, when Tita tumbles prematurely on to the kitchen table, and is immersed in the odours of noodle soup, thyme, bay leaves, coriander, steamed milk, garlic and onion, it is obvious that something unusual is cooking. The love life of Tita, the youngest daughter in a large and intimidating Mexican family, is described in 12 chapters, each of which is named after a month, and each of which begins by describing a recipe. ![]() WHATEVER else we might say about it, there is no denying that Laura Esquivel's new novel is, well, novel. ![]()
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