Like Water For Chocolate

Like Water For Chocolate Trailer - HBO Max - Plot Synopsis: Like Water For Chocolate explores the idea that sometimes traditions can become a prison, an obstacle for love.

Tita de la Garza & Pedro Múzquiz are two souls deeply in love, yet unable to be together due to entrenched family customs. They navigate a world of magical realism & rich flavors as Tita struggles between the destiny imposed on her by her family & her fight for love.

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.

Like Water For Chocolate, also known as Como Agua Para Chocolate, is a series created and written by acclaimed Mexican writer Francisco Javier Royo Fernández, aka "Curro Royo", of Serve & Protect, Hernán, Desaparecidos, and Capitán Alatriste previously.

With writing by María Jaén and Jimena Gallardo.

Episodes directed by Ana Lorena Pérez Ríos and Julián de Tavira.

Adapted from Laura Esquivel's book of the same name.