Onions

For this post, I decided to look for a very symbolic ingredient in Like Water for Chocolate and on of the most symbolic ingredients I found was the onion. Onions can be a symbol of melancholy. In chapter one, or January Christmas Rolls, onions are symbolic to one of Tita's memories. 

"Tita was so sensitive to onions, and time they were being chopped, they say she wold just cry and cry; when she was still in my great grandmothers belly her sobs were so loud that even, Nacha, the cook, who was half-deaf, could hear them easily. Once her wailing got so violent that it brought onto an early labor. Tita had no need for the usual slap on the bottom, because she was already crying as she emerged; maybe that was because she knew then that it would be her lot in life to be denied marriage." -Pages 5-6

--Katie