In Like water for chocolate Laura Esquivel has a beautiful way of arranging the book. She starts every chapter with a recipe. Sometimes it is a food recipe, sometimes it is for lip balm or how to make matches. Then comes the story of the main character and why she is doing that recipe.
To this she adds the beautiful and somehow natural combination of real and magical. When cooking the cake for her sister's weeding, Tita cries. She does so because her sister is marrying the man she loves but cannot have. The yougest daughter never gets married because she needs to care for her mother until her death. Tita cries in the cake ane everyone that eats that cake beacomes suddenly sad and sick.
Since she is force to live a silent and seculded life, Tita expresses herself through her food. She makes people cry until they get sick or makes them burn with desire, she drives them crazy without saying a word.
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