Mexican - Author | September 30, 1950 -
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.
Laura Esquivel
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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.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.
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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.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
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