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Food Quotes by Laura Esquivel

12 Food quotes by Laura Esquivel

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Laura Esquivel’s take on food feels like a short, aromatic stroll through a market stall. Though the list is modest, each line captures her vivid storytelling and the way she ties nourishment to memory and emotion. It’s a handy starter for anyone curious about her culinary voice.

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Take care to chop the onion fine.

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I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.

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Food can change anything.

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I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.

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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and…

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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we…

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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment…

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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now…

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Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air,…

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When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I…

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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life…

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“She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel…

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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

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Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew…

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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

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“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…

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Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

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In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in…

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I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were…

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“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; we need oxygen and…

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