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   Whatever Tita is feeling or experiencing while she cooks is transferred into the people who eat her meals.  In the scene where Tita prepares the quail for her family, the quails are filled with her feelings of longing and sexual tension for Pedro.  As she was preparing the meal that day, Pedro saw her in the kitchen and got a quick glimpse of her bosom.  They were both instantly moved by the moment and their longing for one another became almost unbearable.  They are struggling deeply with the fact that they cannot be together intimately because Pedro is married to Tita's sister, and Mama Elena will forever try to keep them apart.  When everyone is eating the meal they begin to feel those feelings of longing that Tita was experiencing in the kitchen.  Most of them are able to keep their cool, but once her sister, Gertrudis, eats the quail, she takes off passionately with a man on a horse and isn't seen again for many years.

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   Posted by goreadabook on Friday July 10, 2009 at 10:49 AM