Como Agua Para Chocolate: A Mexican Cinderella Story The tale of Cinderella is a timeless classic. There have been countless versions of the fairy tale that span across cultures, including the story of Tita in Laura Esquivel’s novel Como Agua Para Chocolate (1989). The more recognizable versions of the fairytale contains a fairy godmother that uses a magic wand to cast spells and charms, turning Cinderella’s despair into delight; there are no magical fairy godmothers in the Como Agua Para Chocolate yet the story still has a similar magical feeling to it. Esquivel’s novel has a magical realism to it that transfers over to Alfonso Arau’s film by the same name (1992) almost perfectly. Magical realism, at its simplest, is a belief that there