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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

From Laura Esquivel

Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.

From Laura Esquivel

Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.

From Laura Esquivel

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

From Laura Esquivel

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

From Laura Esquivel

I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.

From Laura Esquivel

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

From Laura Esquivel

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

From Laura Esquivel

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

From 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.

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