Like Water for Chocolate Race Quotes

Though [Nacha] didn't know how to read or write, when it came to cooking she knew everything there was to know. (1, 4)

Nacha, mother-figure and chef extraordinaire, is the one who teaches Tita everything. And what she knows is both delicious and powerful.

Her features were plainly Indian she was making tea in an earthenware pan. (6. 376)

Here Tita encounters John's grandmother, Morning Light. In part, she helps Tita get over the trauma of her abusive mother.

From the first, they had established a communication that went far beyond words. (6. 379)

Morning Light is magical; she's mystical; and she's apparently a ghost.