Food and Like water For Chocolate Food. Who doesn't like food? Food is something people everywhere love and enjoy, which makes it a great medium for universally conveying ideas. Some foods make us feel warm and safe, like mom’s chicken soup, some make us feel less so like bad eggs. A book which uses food symbolism very well is Like Water For Chocolate. The main character of Like Water For Chocolate is a young woman named Tita, she has a strong connection with cooking, food, and emotion. The Author shows this by consistently starting each chapter with a recipe that relates to Titas mood throughout the chapter. Like water for Chocolate uses food and cooking to give the reader a deeper understanding of the main character's mood. The Story begins with Titas birth, …show more content…
One good example of this is when Pedro is preparing to marry her sister, while making food for the ceremony Tita is overwhelmed with emotion and begins to weep. A singular tear falls into the batter of the wedding cake, Tita rush's outside and is sick into a bush. Later the meal is nearing completion and the cake is handed out, after eating happily for a few moments the guests all spontaneously start to cry, a few moments later entire congregation moves rapidly to the river bank and begin regurgitating violently. Another such time occurs after the marriage when; Pedro gifts Tita a rose in secret which whips her into a passionate lustful state while cooking dinner for the ranch later that night so much so that when she uses the rose petals in her recipe for quail in rose petal sauce the result is her sister Gertrudis becoming so lustful that she rushes into the sunset in the arms of a revolutionary soldier before turning up in a whorehouse. These examples show how very important food, cooking, and emotion are to the