Cooking Up Love

I may not understand the title, Like Water For Chocolate, but I absolutely love reading about the recipes, on how to make them, and every feeling or story that goes with each receipe.  I kinda felt that Tita loved to cook and everything about cooking, and in her world inside the kitchen and beyond to the garden , she expresses those feelings with a recipe, how she feels when she eats that certain recipe or how she relates an event in her life to a recipe.  Like when the taste and the aroma of the Christmas rolls reminded her of last christmas and of how Pedro confessed his love for her.  Another time, Tita was making a Chabela wedding cake for her sister, Rosaura and Pedro, as she's beating the eggs into the cake mixture, the egg whites reminded her of the testicles of the hundred chicken she and Nacha castrated the previous month.   

Even though Pedro has agreed to marry Rosaura because Mama Elena has said that the youngest daughter cannot marry before the older ones are, I totally understand Tita in loving and respecting her mother so much that she does not defy her mother's decisions.  Tita was mostly in the kitchen and spending time with Nacha so I also felt that Mama Elena wasn't that emotionally close to Tita and she didn't really care whether Tita and Pedro were already in love or not.  All she cared about was her control and whatever she commanded had to be followed.  What I didn't understand was Pedro's love.  If he was so in love with Tita, he wouldn't have married her sister just so he could get close to her!!! THAT IS NOT LOVE!! That is just men thinking with their smaller head between the legs and not with the bigger head up on their shoulders!! With that being said, I think Tita is better off without Pedro's love.  It's not worth the heartaches and heartbreaks.  There are much better men out their waiting for her love.  Tita's mother? Well, patience is a virtue but if she falls in love again and her mother does the same thing to her as she did with Pedro and Rosaura, Tita is better off living by herself.  Tita could also have a secret love and just run away with him.  Maybe, this is the better plan. 

All these recipes are making me licking my lips hungry.  Maybe, I might even try a recipe or two.