[at-l] Like Water for Chocolater

[askowronek@mindspring.com (Amy)]

Phil Heffington wrote:

> The "chick flick" that Orangebug was referring to was a film called
> "Like Water for Chocolate".  It was about a Mexican young man who wanted
> to marry a girl, but had to settle for marrying her sister instead
> because the family tradition was that the daughter he wanted to marry
> had to remain single to take care of her widowed mother.  The only way
> he could continue to "see" the girl he wanted was to marry her sister.
> Substituting one for the other was like trading and getting water
> instead of chocolate.


Er.. I think it was all right up to the last line.  The book is
full of recipes and food references (making it a good hiking book..)
and I think that was talking about how the water should be to make
hot chocolate with.  Maybe I should reread it.

-amy