Question

How do you think Tita's life would be different if she had not been raised in the kitchen?

I think that Tita was able to handle and express her emotions through her cooking. I think that because of all the sounds and smell, she was able to understand the world in terms of food. She could relate to people and help them heal or rejoice through cooking.
Before Tita was born, her father died and her mother couldn't really handle raising a child with her husband recent death. Therefore, Mother 'handed over' Tita to the cook and Nacha, the cook, really taught her the pleasure of food.
I think that Tita would have been sewing and keeping house, like her mother and her sister did, if she was not cooking. I think that it was unusual for a girl like Tita to have been cooking. If she had not been cooking, I think that she would have been in the same mold of many other girls.

--Sophie