Tortilla Soup

In tortilla soup, there was a family of three girls and one father. The father is the character who I thought was the most important in the movie. He was getting old but a great chef. He also had many otha side issues like problems letting go, extremly old fashioned, and only had others best interest at heart.
He was an alone father to three daughters and althought they were grown for the most part, he still treated them all like children. Not only that, he also holds on to his ex wifes death, which makes him unable to move on at first. Each of his three daughters have there own different dreams and perspectives on life and their future, but they do things just to make their father happy. He is also very old fashioned which is some small way is probly another reason for him being unable to let go. With his recipes and raising his children, he always complains about sticking to tradition. In the end he realizes through seeing his daughters moving on in their lives that you have to let go and move on, which he does with which April. They get married and are having now his fifth baby girl.

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Have you ever noticed that when the thought of food or preparing food, the first thing that comes to mind is a woman in the kitchen. Have you ever herd of the saying "the best way to a mans heart is his stomach"? Combining these two I feel that women use food as a method to control and manipulate men. There are many examples of this in text throughout time. Three examples would be from the text The Book of J, The Odyssey, and Like Water For Chocolate.

The Book of J is the Common story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. In the story, Eve convinced Adam to eat the fruit from the tree that was forbidden from them by god. Adam was made to be above her but yet was controlled by Eve. They both knew that they were not to eat the fruit, but although tricked by the snake she ate it first. Then she goes and persuades Adam to eat some. With the fruit, she manipulated him to eat from the tree which caused them both to suffer.

Another example is in The Odyssey with the witch-goddess Circe. What she does is drug a feast and turns all of Odysseus men into pigs. It was also said that she planed to eat them later on, who knows. She poisoned the beautiful meal and changes the men for her own benefit. Once again, a women using food to get a man(male in this case) to do what she wants

Also in Like Water For Chocolate, the main character Tita is the woman who prepared the majority of the meals. Most of the meals she made affected those who ate it. She once made some quail with a rose and with that meal came a few special effects. This meal rose sexual tension and desire throughout all those who ate it, especially her love Pedro. Although I don't feel this was intentional, the meal she made controlled a man.

In conclusion, I feel that women use food as a method to control and manipulate men. Eve and the apple, Circe and her feast, and Tita's quail all controlled men one way or another. Some may have been blind to the fact as well as some done it intentionally. As far as the saying "the best way to a mans heart is his stomach", the men are just proving it to be true.