This luxuriant adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s much-loved novel (directed by her then husband Alfonso Arau) broke box-office records for a Spanish-language film. In a Mexican border town in 1910 neighbours Pedro and Tita wish to marry but Tita s mother Elena refuses to give her consent since she wants her youngest daughter to stay living with her as a full-time carer. So Pedro marries Tita s sister Rosario instead and Tita pours her innermost feelings into her cooking triggering similar respon..
