Como Agua para Chocolate - Chapter Summary

January - christmas rolls

• Intro to all characters

• Tita’s birth

• Tita meets Pedro

• Mama Elena says no to their wedding

• Tita and Pedro swear to love each other forever

February - Chabela wedding cake

• Rosaura and Pedro’s wedding

• Tita cries into the cake mixture

• Her tears make the wedding guests violently ill

• Nacha dies

March - Quail in rose petal sauce

• Pedro gives Tita roses

• Gertrudis sees Juan in the village

• Tita makes the meal, and her blood goes into the mixture

• Gertrudis becomes the medium for the impact of the aphrodisiac between Tita and Pedro

• Gertrudis takes a shower and runs away with Juan

April - Turkey mole with almonds and sesame seeds

• Roberto is born

• Pedro looks at Tita’s breasts (chaste to experienced - Tita is an object)

• Rosaura gained a lot of weight during her pregnancy, and there were complications as a result

• Tita helped Rosaura give birth, as guided by Nacha

• John Brown first appears

• Tita feeds Roberto

• Mama Elena sees this and sends Pedro, Rosaura and Roberto to move to San Antonio, TX

May - Northern-style chorizo

• The army come to the ranch

• Juan asks about Mama Elena’s three daughters, while chencha and Tita hide in the basement with the animals
  Tita isn’t helping with the cooking as she’s heartbroken after Roberto’s death

• Tita is feeding pigeons

• She gets sent to live with John Brown

June - a recipe for making matches

• Tita is living with John

• She…