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Light My Fire
Food for Thought
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325
This makes Tita understand how dough feels when it is plunged into boiling oil.
What is Pedro’s stare into Tita’s eyes?
325
Tears in this food makes wedding guests vomit.
What is Chabala wedding cake?
325
Symbol that represents John Brown
What is a match?
325
She runs off with Juan Trevino on his horse.
Who is Gertrudis?
325
Tita and Pedro first consummated their love here.
What is the dark room?
400

Tita eats these in order to return to Pedro in the tunnel.

What are candles?

400
Chencha brings this food to Tita when she is mute.
What is oxtail soup?
400

Substance allowing Tita to communicate after her trauma

What is phosphorus on the wall?

400
He is Mama Elena’s secret lover.
Who is Jose Trevino?
400
Pedro and Rosaura move here after their son’s baptism.
What is San Antonio?
500
Gertrudis plays this song on the day Pedro met Tita.
What is "The Eyes of Youth"?
500
This is the food Tita can swallow only after Mama Elena smacks her.
What are soft-boiled eggs?
500
Elements that exemplify Tita and Rosaura’s relationship
What are oil and water?
500
He warns Tita of the approach of Mama Elena’s ghost.
Who is Pulque?
500
The smell of roses still lingers here.
What is a parking lot?
600

This burned for an entire week.

What is the ranch?

600

This person is Tita's best helper when making the chiles in nut sauce, which requires shelling 1,000 nuts.

Who is John Brown

600

Tita considers this to be her greatest triumph.

What is, facilitating the wedding of Esperanza and Alex?

600

This person used to sweep the whole village every morning and sometimes had garbage clinging to her skin.

Who is Tita's old teacher, Jovita?

600

This room of the house turns into a volcano.

What is the dark room, the storage room that was once Mama Elena's bath house??

650

How Pedro decorated the dark room where he and Tita could express their passion freely for the first time. 

What is, with 250 candles, white silk sheets and a white bedspread?

650

This is how the chile sauce affected the wedding guests.

What is, it filled them with urgent passion?

650
This is discovered under the remains of the ranch.

What is Tita's recipe book?

650

This person farted to death.

Who is Rosaura?

650

This is where Alex lives at the end of the book.

What is, in an apartment that was built on the land where the ranch had once stood?