Food In Esquivel's Water Like Chocolate

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Have you ever asked yourself if food have any connection with your feelings? As human we do not often take a minute to appreciate or to think how important is food in our lives. Food is not only important worfor our nutrition and health but, it plays an important role in our emotions. Our temper is many times influenced by food. For example, in moments of hunger, anger takes over your body for no reason, when you are sad food does not really have any taste or when you are really stress out food sometimes is the best comfort. In water like Chocolate, Esquivel uses the setting of the kitchen and traditional recipes to demonstrate the joy and disappointments Tita experiences as daughter, sister, lover, and cook.
Throughout the novel the protagonist,