Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

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,…

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human…

— Laura Esquivel

To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

“It doesn't matter to me what you did, there are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if…

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is…

— Laura Esquivel

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

— Laura Esquivel

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in…

— Laura Esquivel

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even…

— Laura Esquivel

Take care to chop the onion fine.

— Laura Esquivel

“-Perdóneme, Pedro. ¿Lo lastimé? -No tanto como yo la he lastimado, déjeme decirle que mi propósito... -No le he pedido ninguna explicación.…

— Laura Esquivel

As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of…

— Laura Esquivel

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

— Laura Esquivel

[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges…

— Laura Esquivel

“The time it took to prepare didn't matter, because there is no such thing as wasted time in the kitchen--rather that is…

— Laura Esquivel