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Chabela's Wedding Cake (Adapted From "Like Water For Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel)

Tita and Nacha shoulder the bulk of the preparations for Chabela's wedding feast, which includes baking a gigantic cake and fattening 200 roosters. Tita is in shock and plagued by hallucinations due to her forbidden love for the groom, Pedro. When Tita breaks down crying while cooking, her tears make the cake batter soggy. At the wedding, Pedro whispers to Tita that his love for her is undying, rekindling her emotions.

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Chabela's Wedding Cake (Adapted From "Like Water For Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel)

Tita and Nacha shoulder the bulk of the preparations for Chabela's wedding feast, which includes baking a gigantic cake and fattening 200 roosters. Tita is in shock and plagued by hallucinations due to her forbidden love for the groom, Pedro. When Tita breaks down crying while cooking, her tears make the cake batter soggy. At the wedding, Pedro whispers to Tita that his love for her is undying, rekindling her emotions.

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Chabelas Wedding Cake (Adapted from Like Water for Chocolate by

Laura Esquivel)
The fateful wedding of Pedro and Rosaura has the De La Garza household in a
tremendous blur of activity. The kitchen is consumed with the preparation of the
Chabela Wedding Cake. The wedding feast requires gigantic proportions of food
170 eggs for the cake and 200 roosters to be fattened up and served as capons.
Nacha and Tita shoulder the bulk of this effort. In shock from the circumstances and
fatigued by the work required to prepare the feast, Tita is plagued with
hallucinations. Mama Elena sternly declares that she will not have Tita ruin the
wedding.
I wont stand for disobedience, Mama Elena told her, nor am going to allow
you to ruin your sisters wedding, with your acting like a victim. Youre in charge for
all the preparations starting now, and dont ever let me catch you with a single tear,
or even a long face, do you hear?
Tita continues to cook, but eventually she and Nacha near the point of
breakdown. When Mama Elena leaves the kitchen, Nacha encourages Tita to
release her emotions before the wedding. Finally, able to express herself, Tita
breaks down into endless tears. After weeping profusely, Tita continues cooking and
finds that her tears have made the cake batter soggy.
Later, Tita accidentally runs into Pedro in the garden while picking apricots.
He makes it clear that he still desires her, wishing to explain himself; however, Tita
refuses to hear him out. Back in the kitchen and fixating on the whiteness of the
cake icing she is preparing, Tita is continually affected by hallucinations. Nacha
insists that Tita gets some rest.
Alone in the kitchen, Nacha tastes the cake icing to see if Titas tears have
made it salty. She finds the flavor unchanged, but is suddenly overcome with a
sense of immense loss. She remembers her own lost, youthful love and takes sick
with an ache so t;errible that she cannot attend the wedding. However, Tita must
attend the wedding an d suffer the intense scrutiny of the assembled guests, all of
whom know about her feelings for Pedro. She was aware that she, not her sister
Rosaura, was the center of attention. She is harassed by their comments and
stares. Tita didnt care for these comments at all. She was not meant for the
losers role. She would put on a triumphant expression. Like a great actress, she
played her role with dignity, trying to think about anything but the wedding march
and the priests words, the knot and the rings. As she passes through the receiving
line where guests congratulate the newlyweds, Tita is forced to face Pedro, who
uses the opportunity to whisper to her that his love for her is undying.
Pedro, who was standing with Rosaura, said to Tita: And me, arent you going
to congratulate me?

Yes, of course. I hope you will be very happy.


Pedro hugging her much closer than convention allowed, took advantage of
this unique opportunity to whisper to Titas ear: I am sure I will be, since through
this marriage I have gained what I really wanted: the chance to be near you, the
woman I really love.
For Tita, these words were like a fresh breeze fanning embers that had been
about to die. She had had to hide her feelings for so many months that her
expression now changed dramatically, and her relief and happiness were obvious.

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