In Like Water For Chocolate, Tita, Pedro, and Nacha are all working to prepare food for the wedding -- of Pedro and Rosaura. When Pedro picks apricots, Tita run into him. Pedro declares his love to Tita; she didn't want to hear what he has to say. Tita goes back into the kitchen and we learn, she isn't feeling well. Nacha sends Tita away, in hopes she gets better. Then, Nacha checks the cake icing to see if Tita's tears, made the icing salty. Upon taste testing, she didn't taste a change within the flavor. The only thing she feels is great loss; her youthful love and becomes sick -- an is unable to attend the wedding.
Within my life, frosting is a taste of friendship and sisterhood. When I was in high school I was in a youth group called BBYO. A staple at all our meetings and programing was spooey; pretzels and frosting. I then introduced this tasteful treat to my family and friends. Spooey was always the "cure." Didn't do well on a test? Eat spooey. Lost an election? Eat spooey. Won an election? Eat spooey. Stressed with homework? Eat spooey. Even though I am two years out of BBYO, spooey is still my go-to-snack. All I have to do is dip some frosting onto a pretzel and it will bring me back to all the memories where we would sit on the floor for hours, talking, crying of happiness and eating spooey.
Do you have an food items that are memory triggers?
When I think of frosting, I think of my sister because she really likes to bake. Yesterday she actually made some cupcakes which were rainbow themed. They had these arches made from sour candy strips and marshmallows as clouds with blue frosting but oh, gosh, I'm ranting...
ReplyDeleteWhenever I taste frosting, I always think of parties, birthdays or special occasions. All throughout my life, that has been the distinct memory or association that I've had with frosting.
ReplyDeletePizza Rolls! It will always remind me of being home all day with my brothers in the summer and cooking TONS! I mean Bags! of pizza rolls and eating all of them while we played basketball in the driveway all day.
ReplyDeleteI like how you connect your experiences with the book...icing always reminds me of my sisters and making Christmas cookies.
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