《恰似水于巧克力》这部书的副标题为“月刊小说——菜谱、爱情和家用处方”。全书分为12章,每章对应一个月,各章开头都有一份奇妙的菜谱(也是实用的菜谱)。围绕着菜谱的是同桌进餐人的悲欢离合的爱情故事。每一份菜谱就是一个戏剧性冲突的单元。主人公大多是妇女,但它并非一部女权主义作品,作品中把令人厌恶的母权专制当作爱情悲剧的根源,因此这本书受到女性读 The subtitle of “Just like Water in Chocolate” is the “monthly novels - recipes, love and home prescriptions.” The book is divided into 12 chapters, each chapter corresponds to a month, each chapter has a wonderful cookbook (also a practical recipe). Around the recipe is the love and joys and sorrows of the same table diner. Each recipe is a unit of dramatic conflict. Most of the protagonists are women, but it is not a feminist work, in which the abhorrent matriarchy is the root cause of the tragedy of love, so the book is read by women