BETWEEN TWO FIRES: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food & Flavor [Hardcover]

Laura Esquivel (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Crown Publishers (2000)
• ASIN: B001J8UGOC
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Laura Esquivel is the award-winning author of Like Water for Chocolate, which has sold over four and a half million copies around the world in 35 languages, The Law of Love, and most recently, Between Two Fires. She lives in Mexico City.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A collection of thoughts., March 24, 2001

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This review is from: Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food, and Flavor (Hardcover)

For those of you who expect something along the same lines as "Like Water for Chocolate" and "The Law of Love," you will be disappointed. "Between Two Fires" is basically a collection of thoughts, or short essays, taken from articles published in "Vogue de Mexico;" prologues to books such as "The Secrets of Jesuit Breadmaking," by Rick Curry; or speeches made at book fairs and psychoanalyst workshops.

"Between Two Fires" does not carry the heady aroma and full body of Esquivel's previous books. One feels as though someone forgot to keep stoking the fire and the meal, so to speak, has well ... gone cold in places.

If however, you want a quick, short read to pass the time on the bus, train, underground, in the doctor's waiting room or waiting for the kettle to boil whilst in the full knowledge that you can finish a chapter by the time you get to your destination, are called for your appointment or need to make tea for the neighbours, then this is an ideal book to carry along with you. It is basically an anthology of memories, thoughts, ideas, short stories, interwoven with the ever present taste and aroma of the kitchen.