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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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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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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

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

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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

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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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To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

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I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Author

Born: September 30th, 1950

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