1. Aim: How do Tita and Pedro set up a secret system of communication?
Do Now:
“As recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”
Thomas Keller
What does this quote mean?
How does it relate to the novel, Like Water for Chocolate?

2. “…she burst into tears and ran from the room.” p. 48
Why did Rosaura run out of the room in tears when Pedro presented Tita with a bouquet of flowers? What did she realize?
What else about Rosaura makes her sensitive about Tita and Pedro?

3. “It is a dish from the gods.” p.51
“Rosaura, saying she was feeling sick and getting nauseous, barely took three bites. But something strange was happening to Gertrudis.” p. 51
What was happening to Gertrudis in the quote?
How do we explain why Rosaura and Gertrudis had different reactions to Tita’s dish?
How does Pedro react to Tita’s dish? What is the line from the text that indicates the answer?
“It is a dish from the gods.” p.51

4. “With that meal it seemed they had discovered a new system of communication, in which Tita was the transmitter, Pedro the receiver, and poor Gertrudis the medium, the conducting body through which the singular sexual message was passed.” p. 52
How are Tita and Pedro able to communicate intimately?

5. “Her body was giving off so much heat that the wooden walls began to split and burst into flame.” – p. 54
How is Magical Realism used in the description of Gertrudis’s reaction to Tita’s dish?
How can we compare the use of hot and cold in this novel? If Gertrudis feels heat in this moment, can you find the moment in the same chapter where a character feels cold?
“Tita therefore began to hope that if she could find the one star amount all the stars in the sky – that her sister was watching right this minute, it might reflect a little leftover heat onto her.” – p. 60