![]() ![]() Mama Elena angrily reminds Tita of the family tradition demanding the youngest daughter stay at home and care for her mother (until the mother’s death) instead of getting married. One holiday season when Tita is fifteen years old, she tells Mama Elena that a suitor, Pedro Musquiz, wants to come speak to her. Mama Elena must manage the ranch, so she leaves Tita’s care to Nacha, the cook, whom Tita comes to see as her “real mother.” Unlike her older sisters, Gertrudis and Rosaura, Tita develops a deep love of cooking. Two days after her birth, her father, Juan de la Garza, dies of a heart attack. Her tears send “Mama Elena” into labor, and Tita is born on the kitchen table. Each chapter begins with a recipe in Tita’s cookbook, which has been inherited by the story’s narrator, Tita’s great-niece.īefore Tita’s birth, she cries in the womb while her mother, Elena de la Garza, is chopping onions. Like Water for Chocolate is set in Northern Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, from about 1910-1920. ![]()
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