According an answer written to a question on enotes, "The title is a simile for Tita's passion for Pedro. Her love for him is as hot as water needs to be to melt chocolate." The simile is comparing Tita's boiling love for Pedro to how hot water has to be to melt chocolate. The title is also compared to how the drink hot chocolate is made in some countries. According to the blog Water for Chocolate, "In some countries, they make hot chocolate with boiling hot water instead of milk, The phrase 'like water for chocolate' is a double entendre. The first meaning, alludes to the actual hot chocolate making process. You have to get the water boiling hot to make what you want with it. The second, alludes to boiling hot passion."
Sources:
http://waterforchocolate.tumblr.com/faq
http://www.enotes.com/like-water-chocolate/q-and-a/why-book-called-like-water-for-chocolate-17895
--Katie
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