Like Water For Chocolate Book Review 2024 Book Review. With like water for chocolate premiering this sunday, hayek pinault hopes that viewers have room to reconsider how they feel about certain characters in the story, especially. Salma hayek pinault’s new adaptation of laura esquivel’s 1989 novel “like water for chocolate” — as a sumptuous period melodrama for hbo — falls squarely into the latter.

The novel follows the story of a young girl named tita, who. And it’s not just the costumes or the sets, although they are both clearly rendered with care.