SOURCE: "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Tale of Sensuality, Sustenance, and Spirits," in Film and Literature: A Comparative Approach to Adaptation, Texas Tech University Press, 1988, pp. 165-78.

In the following essay, Grönlund and Mills praise Bruno Barreto's film adaptation of Amado's Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.

Jorge Amado's novel Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale tells the story of Floripedes, a raven-haired Brazilian beauty "with eyes shining like oil and skin the color of tea," and the two men she marries. This independent-minded woman of Bahia, who "had been born with the gift for seasoning," a teacher of culinary arts who runs her own school, marries first the man of her youthful dreams—someone blond, dashing and poor—in the person of Vadinho who, in addition to being blond, dashing and poor, is a gambler, a randy rake, a...