Without a doubt this is one of the books that has given me the most pleasure to read, "Intimate Succulences, a philosophical treatise on cooking", is an analogy of texts by Laura Esquivel, a prominent Mexican writer for her novels, including "Like Water for Chocolate", as well as for being a film and television scriptwriter and also a pedagogue.
The texts compiled in this book through different recipes of Mexican cuisine and stories related to them, make us a supernatural way, to vividly feel what the writer wants to convey to us. Topics such as family unity, lies, tradition, the role of women in society, machismo, the distance from our home, self-discovery as individuals, are interspersed with apple soups, with the black mole of Oaxaca and with a delicious tablecloth stain. The chapter that impacted me the most is the one in which the writer narrates how her mother prepared the favorite dish of her uncle, a successful politician, every time he came to visit them and how they were proud that he was part of their family. But after the uncle's death and it came to light who he really was, the apple soup never tasted the same again. At first glance it might seem like a silly book, but nothing could be further from the truth. His writings are loaded with intelligent and profound reasoning and a spirituality capable of touching us all.
Laura, "Intimate Succulences", enveloped us with words, but also with images. Without fear of being wrong, it is the best illustrated book for adults that I have read (and there have been many). Each image, far from extinguishing what we have been able to recreate in our minds when reading, makes our imagination fly very far. The quality with which this masterpiece was printed is impressive: hard cover, cloth spine, thick white pages, illustrations on more than 90% of the pages, brown colors that remind us of the wonderful land from which we obtain food and a mix of blue and bright yellow on the front and back covers that attract the eyes of all types of readers. Thank God I bought it sold used and by someone who didn't know how to value it; because if I had found it at the Havana Book Fair, between the value of its content and the enormous quality of printing, I surely would not have had the money to buy it.
No good review would be able to honor the majesty of this literary work. I urge you to look for it physically or digitally and read it. Thanks for reading!
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