If ever a movie has perfected the ability of making its audience hungry it’s surely this Mexican classic. Released asComo Agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) in 1992 and based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Laura Esquivel , the story is set in the 1910s in revolutionary Mexico. It features sweeping landscapes, smoldering passions (literally) and the most bitter family politics, yet the central theme of traditional Mexican cooking and its power to evoke the wildest deep emotions is never far from center stage.

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