Like Water For Chocolate Book 2024. And it's not just the costumes or the sets, although they are both clearly. 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 story is set in. Like water for chocolate, hbo’s newest adaptation of laura esquivel’s novel of the same name, is premiering on november 3.