![]() Crying as she bakes, her tears mingle with the ingredients and unleash a wave of longing in everyone who eats a piece. But Tita doesn't know his thinking and, crushed by what she sees as betrayal, she must make the wedding cake. Pedro accepts, thinking it will be a way to stay close to his one true love. ![]() When Pedro, Tita's admirer, asks for Tita's hand in marriage, her mother refuses permission, offering instead Tita's older sister, Rosaura. Tita has grown up under the tutelage of the spinster cook Nacha and has learned all the family recipes and remedies. ![]() ![]() Set in turn-of-the-century Mexico, it tells the romantic tale of Tita De La Garza, the youngest of Mama Elena's three daughters, whose fate, dictated by family tradition, is to remain single so that she can take care of her mother in her old age. A first novel (``the number one bestseller in Mexico in 1990'')-liberally sprinkled with recipes and homemade remedies-from screenwriter Esquivel. ![]()
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