The recipes being bought into the story primarily gives a summary for the abutting chapter. For example, on the first page of chapter 3 "March", there is a recipe given for "Quail in Rose Petal Sauce", this recipe contains a variety of foods including 12 roses which are prefered to be red, this gives a synopsis on chapter 3 by reason that in this chapter Pedro (Tita's lover who is married to her sister Rosaura) gives Tita a dozen red roses to present his love he still and always had for her, out of prosperity, Tita takes those roses and makes a meal with them and after the meal is eaten by the family it affects each one of them in a different way, Every time Tita cooks food it has a different effect on everyone depending on what is in the food
