In case you missed it the first time: Like Water for Chocolate

Valentine's Day has once again arrived, bringing with it a plethora of cards, teddy bears, and of course, chocolate. Chocolate, the ultimate Valentine confection -- dark and complex or smooth and sweet, and as varied as love itself. Chocolate can bring comfort to the lowliest unrequited lover or can ignite passion in the most listless couple. The delectable sweet presents a potent ingredient in any concoction, and even in a movie. Like Water for Chocolate, the 1992 Mexican romance based on the book of the same name by Laura Esquivel, is a beautiful feast for the eyes and the heart. It's a tale that mixes the human need for food with the human need to be loved.

Like Water for Chocolate is the story of Tita, a young woman living in rural Mexico during the Revolution, and her love of cooking and for her older sister Rosaura's husband Pedro. Through a series of unfortunate coincidences, Tita is forced to suffer through her love for Pedro while working as the cook at the hacienda where they both live. As Tita's feelings become more passionate, so does the food she creates. Each carefully prepared dish becomes infused with her emotions. Whoever consumes Tita's food is then filled with the same emotions Tita experiences while cooking. Food then becomes a means of communication between Tita and Pedro to keep their love alive while never acting upon their emotions.

This "love that dare not speak its name" provides a roller-coaster ride of feelings for anyone else that haplessly eats Tita's food as well; her other sister Gertrudis becomes so incredibly aroused by a certain dinner that she runs naked into the countryside, steam pouring off her body. Picked up and thrown on a horse by a Revolutionary fighter, the two go off into the sunset to try and cure her insatiable lust.

Like Water for Chocolate is a richly visual film that captures the voracious love of Tita and Pedro. It's a movie that creates the kind of love we all seek in life, an all-consuming affair that inspires passion and fire into our daily lives.