I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred? — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter to me what you did, there are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
