“Food is uniquely portable magic”

As human being, we’re dragging out all the tricks and discovered the magic in food. In food we possibly could find all the ingredients of life meant for any species on earth such as knowledge, love, culture, communication, and nation, which lead us to a magical scenario. Food has magical properties for any creature’s that gives us proper satisfaction through our entire existence. However, between food and creatures there is magical relationship because without food nobody can be alive on this earth. Food is a supernatural enhancement for any creatures on earth.

In general, food works like magic specially when we need knowledge and power because food generates power into our body and mind and that’s how our brain work which is a way to gain knowledge. Because if Odyssey’s had no knowledge at that time he and his warriors would have die in the cave to Cyclopes when Cyclopes went about eating two of Odysseus men. On that case Odysseus used his magical track with the wine which put Cyclopes into sleep. Apart from that “food and magic” is always related because it is very appealing to the senses.

In Like Water for Chocolate, “food and magic” are all joined together with full of love. Tita’s magical emotions and love express through food when she was making the wedding cake for her sister and can’t stop her crying which made the icing turned pink, but the magic started to begin while everyone ate the cake and started to throwing up and crying. On the other hand, when Tita cooked quail with “rose paddle sauce” which gave Tita’s sister Gertrudis a feeling of love. The food is magical which causes others to feel emotions through food. Just as the writer Laura Esquivel has transferred love into her novel, Tita transferred love into her food, because this story is a way of expressing emotion, feeling and love. Tita’s food is of a kind of magic that’s made people to react as the Tita's emotions. Throughout this book there have been many instances of magic where most of the actually from Tita’s food.

In addition, Food has the magic to bring people closer. When we smell a food we don’t really smell the food, we actually smell the magic of the food which force us to eat the food. In food we will find the leverage to bring people together. In any occasion we need food to celebrate our special days. In our culture food means lot in any occasion because without food any event is meaningless. For example, in our culture in a party or a wedding we satisfy our guess mainly by food because if the food is good that means the party or wedding. Another reason that we choose food because the magic is that food is very easily appreciated.

Indeed, it is very magical that we cannot survive without food because the way its magic goes through our body nothing else can do it. Since, Tita and Odysseus showed the world how to track people by magic of the food; we would be able to see that more often as the time passed by. We all know what food means to us into our daily life; we begin the day with breakfast and end the day with dinner. If we are hungry we easily feel that we need to eat. Therefore, I believe food can be a magical tool into our daily life.


Reference:
Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate. New York: Double Day, 1989.
Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Stanley Lombardo. Indiana: Hackett Publishing, 2000.