![]() ![]() ![]() Forced to make the cake for her sister's wedding, Tita pours her emotions into the task each guest who samples a piece bursts into tears. Esquivel mischievously appropriates the techniques of magical realism to make Tita's contact with food sensual, instinctual and often explosive. But Tita has one weapon left-her cooking. When she falls in love, her mother quickly scotches the liaison and tyrannically dictates that Tita's sister Rosaura must marry the luckless suitor, Pedro, in her place. The youngest daughter of a well-born rancher, Tita has always known her destiny: to remain single and care for her aging mother. Each chapter of screenwriter Esquivel's utterly charming interpretation of life in turn-of-the-century Mexico begins with a recipe-not surprisingly, since so much of the action of this exquisite first novel (a bestseller in Mexico) centers around the kitchen, the heart and soul of a traditional Mexican family. ![]()
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