Take care to chop the onion fine.

Take care to chop the onion fine.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.