Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food and Flavor - Tapa dura

A collection of essays and writings on food from the best-selling author of Like Water for Chocolate shares her thoughts on the chile and its influence on Mexican life, her childhood reminiscences about her mother's and grandmother's kitchens, a recipe for Oaxacan Black Mole, and more. 30,000 first printing.

The return to the kitchen was not easy. I wanted my daughter to know her past, to eat what I had eaten in my childhood; however, I quickly realized that I no longer remembered my family's recipes....I forced myself to try and remember a recipe on my own. And that is how I discovered, as I had already known in my childhood, that it was possible to hear voices in the kitchen."
Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel leapt to international fame with Like Water for Chocolate. With millions of copies sold in hardcover and paperback, and with the phenomenal success of the movie, it is truly one of the most beloved stories of the last decade. In her latest book, Between Two Fires, Laura Esquivel continues to sustain us on levels beyond the physical.

Between Two Fires is a wonderful collection of the best of her passionate speeches, short writings, and recipes from the last decade or so, most never published in English. Funny, poigna