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There are four testimonies given to  a Kyoto city official who is investigating the mysterious death. The woodcutter who found the body that morning speaks first, he confirms the location of the deserted bamboo grove where he found the corpse. Then, a traveling Buddhist priest says he saw a man, a woman, and a horse the day before just after noon. Next, a policeman testifies that he has caught a bandit named Tajomaru, who is sadly known for raping women around Kyoto. The policeman think Tajomaru is responsible and that the magistrate should question him. The fourth testimony is delivered by the young woman's mother, who confirms that her daughter Masago and Masago's husband Takehiro, had been traveling in the hills the day before. She breaks down crying, worried for her missing daughter's safety.

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Tajomaru confesses to having killed Takehiro. He did this because of Masago's beauty, he wanted her for himself. He tookTakehiro into a bamboo grove and acted like he was going to sell him treasure stolen from an aristocrat. Tajomaru then tied Takehiro up and unfortanately raped Masago. She then asked him to kill either himself or her husband, saying she would be with the one who lived. Tajomaru untied Takehiro and challenged him to a sword fight that ended in Tajomaru stabbing Takehiro in the chest. Meanwhile, Masago escaped, so Tajomaru left the forest with Takehiro's weapons and rode Masago's horse until he was caught. Tajomaru knows his fate and asks that he be executed by hanging at the tree outside the prison.

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The first recipe is mentioned in this chapter and it's Christmas rolls. We learn that the narrator is sensitive to onions, just like her great-aunt Tita. Great- aunt Tita is now mentioned and we see that she is the main character in this story. Her life and her upbringing are mentioned and also the love she had for the kitchen.

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Pedro it Tita's love interest. He confesses his love for her . She is in love with him and they are in love with each other. She sees herself spending the rest of her life with him.

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Nacha dies because of the wedding cake incident. I cannot begin to imagine the pain Tita must feel for knowing that in a way this may have been her fault. She lost someone important to her.  The story takes a passionate turn as Tita prepares a meal. Everyone enjoys it and some people are filled with lustful desires. Her sister goes into a shower to cool off but instead a fire ignites in her causing her to burn up and run off with a man on a horse. I was not expecting the story to take such a turn out of reality.

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She still needs to attend the wedding despite how she feels. The wedding cake gets everyone sick and her mother assumes she poisoned it. So her mother starts beating her, despite Tita's efforts to convince her mother that she did not poison the cake. The pain lingers but she still remember what Pedro said to her and she feels warm inside. The wedding was ruined and Rosaura's dress was ruined. What a coincidence.

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Pedro gets married to Rosaura even though he loves Tita. Tita is heartbroken and breaks down in tears. She is in love with him but he has chosen to do this. Pedro and Tita run into each other in the garden. He makes it clear that he still desires her but Tita does not want to hear it. If I were in her shoes, I would not want to hear it either. Do not tell me you live me and then go off to marry someone else. Tita does not want to be somebody's mistress. She knows she is more than that. She is hurt and disappointed in Pedro.

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Despite the endless abuse that she suffered at the hands of Mama Elena, Tita is moved to great sorrow by her mother's death. Further, when dressing the dead body of Mama Elena for the wake, Tita discovers a set of keys that open a box of love letters. The letters reveal that as a young woman, Elena was deeply in love with another man. Her parents forbid this relationship and forced her into a marriage with the man who would become Tita's father. However, Mama Elena continued the affair, and she eventually became pregnant with Gertrudis. Elena planned to run away with her lover but he was murdered, so she gave into her loveless marriage and hid the true identity of her second child's father.

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Throughout her stay at John's house, Tita remains silent. Nevertheless, a bond grows between her and John as they spend a great deal of time together. John shares with Tita a recipe for making matches, and with this recipe, he explains the theory that an inner fire burns in each person and describes the ways in which one must protect this fire. Eventually, John asks Tita to write on the wall her reason for not talking. When he returns, he finds that she has written, "Because I don't want to." With this assertion of her will, Tita moves further toward her freedom and becomes certain that she wishes never to return to her mother's house.

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Rosaura is unable to produce milk for the newly born child. She is unable to nurse her child. I feels so bad for Rosauna, her husband is in love with another woman and on top of that she can not give her child what he needs. As a mother I cannot imagine what she must be feeling. I hope she truly finds someone who loves her. Tita eventually takes on the responsibility of nursing Roberto,. Tita discovers that she is miraculously full with milk and is able to feed her nephew. Pedro discovers Tita secretly nursing Roberto and helps her to conceal this from the rest of the family.

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Unexpected joy comes to Tita with the birth of Roberto, the son of Pedro and Rosaura. Tita works to prepare a special baptism meal. While in the kitchen, she has another chance encounter with Pedro that alters their relationship. A simple exchange of glances communicates the layers of unspoken desire between them. After this encounter, Tita's faith in Pedro's love is restored.

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The final consummation of the passion between Tita and Pedro is both tragic and triumphant in that the light of Tita's inner fire is finally free to blaze, but only at the expense of her earthly life. It is perhaps only now that Tita's inner fire can truly burn, as she has, for the first time, made an active decision based on her desires, leaving behind the constricting confines of the cultural role into which she was forced throughout her life.