Laura Esquivel

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

— Laura Esquivel

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

— 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

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

— Laura Esquivel

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico…She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room. The smell of nuts and chilies and garlic got all mixed up with the smells from the chapel, my grandmother's carnations, the liniments and healing herbs.

— Laura Esquivel

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

— Laura Esquivel

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught. The law of love is what one really should be learning in school, and what I want to communicate to people is that they should disobey the social rules that do not pertain to them, they should rebel against what is not personally true.

— Laura Esquivel