I. SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHORLaura Esquivel is a Mexican writer and author. Born September 30, 1950 in Mexico City, Mexico. The third of four children of Julio Caesar Esquivel, a telegraph operator, and his wife Josephina. In an interview with Molly O'Neill in the New York Times. Esquivel explained, "I grew up in a modern house, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house built when churches were illegal in Mexico. Esquivel began writing while working as a kindergarten teacher. She wrote works plays for her students and then went on to write children's television programs in the 1970s and 1980s. Esquivel often explores the relationship between men and women in Mexico in her work. She is best known for Like Water for Chocolate (1990), an imaginative and compelling combination of novel and cookbook. It had been published in Mexico a year earlier. After the release of the film version in 1992, Like Water for Chocolate became internationally known and loved sold more than 4.5 million copies, his second novel The Law of Love (1996) combined romance and science fiction. the Fires (2000) containing essays on life, love and food. Her most recent novel, Malinche (2006), explores the life of a near-mythical figure in Mexican history: the woman who served as interpreter and lover to the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. Once married to director Alfonso Arau, Esquivel is divorced and lives in Mexico City. , Mexico. He had a chapel in his house, right between the kitchen and the dining room. The smell of walnuts, chili peppers and garlic mixed with the smells of the chapel, of my grandmother's carnations. liniments and healing herbs." These experiences in her family's kitchen provided the inspiration for Esquivel's first novel. Esquivel grew up in Mexico City and attended the Escuela Normal de Maestros, the national teachers' college. After taught in school for eight years, Esquivel began writing and directing for children's theater. In the early 1980s he wrote the screenplay for the Mexican film Chido One. in Spanish is a popular novel written by Laura Esquivel, a Mexican writer, published in 1989. It is a monthly installment novel with recipes, novels and home remedies..