Como Agua Para Chocolate

Como agua para chocolate (Alfonso Arau, 1992) is a sensual food film that takes you to Mexico around 1900. Tita and Pedro are in love, but her strict mother won't let her marry. She has to take care of her mother. Pedro marries Tita's older sister to be closer to Tita. When Tita has to make the wedding cake, Tita discovers that she can do strange things with her cooking skills... she can make others feel her excitement, sadness, revenge and desire. If only it goes well. A film that sparks, literally and figuratively. Nominated for an Oscar. The film is spoken in Spanish and has both Dutch and English subtitles.

Tita enchants everyone in the film with her dishes. She puts her emotions into her: wedding cake, quails with rose petals, chorizo, oxtail soup, champandongo, pudding rolls, chili con carne and stuffed peppers. Culinary classics from old Mexico, with original recipes from the book 'Red Roses and Tortillas'. And you can taste the passion.

What you see is what you eat. At exactly the same time, you eat what is eaten in the film. The culinary script of Cinema Culinair is leading for the chef and the service. Good film + good food + great timing. The punchline is in the latter. An example. When the quail with rose petals is tasted at minute 28 in the film, you do the same. A minute earlier or later is the difference between a good and a fan-tas-tic experience. It is about not only seeing and hearing the film, but also tasting and feeling it.