Like Water For Chocolate on SBS and SBS on Demand S1E1 – From Executive Producer, Salma Hayek Pinault, Like Water For Chocolate explores the idea that sometimes traditions can become a prison and an obstacle for love.
Tita de la Garza (Azul Guaita) and Pedro Múzquiz (Andrés Baida) are two souls deeply in love, yet unable to be together due to entrenched family customs.
The protagonists navigate a world of magical realism and rich flavours as Tita struggles between the destiny imposed on her by her family and her fight for love. Along the way, the kitchen becomes her greatest refuge. For Tita, her magical connection to cooking becomes an active resistance against oppression, allowing her to channel her deepest desires and passions into her recipes, transforming those who taste them.
Series One, Episode One: Cream-Soaked French Toast
After years apart, Tita is reunited with her childhood sweetheart Pedro, who vows to ask her mother, Elena, for her hand in marriage. But the two are blindsided when Elena voices her own plans for daughter’s future, causing a fissure between Tita and her sister Rosaura.
Like Water For Chocolate on SBS and SBS on Demand – Channel Premiere / Monday 29 December at 11.10pm (6 Parts)
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Like Water For Chocolate on SBS and SBS on Demand S1E1
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