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Teachers & SchoolsCooking as a Remedy
Babies born on kitchen tables, quail and rose petals burning up sexual appetites, ox-tail soup for the mommy-battered soul; cooking and food is so much more than a remedy, so much more than a theme. It's a way to gather people together, to recall lost loves and childhood sweethearts. Tita knows better than anyone in the novel how much food can mean to a person, especially for someone who wants to be free and can't be.
For Tita, violence is not a form of communication but cooking is.
Cookbooks are a form of literature and should be read and shared within families.