The mysteries of cooking are treated in Like Water for Chocolate. The sublime seems to have a definition of being inhuman, an image that cannot be named. The magical realism has the definition of being magical and unreal. Tita's love she had for her sister's husband upon their marriage and through out the time of their marriage and lives. Tita's love never changed.
Love is magical any way one looks at it.
However, the love Tita felt in this story would also seem to be considered sublime. Tita's feelings were inhuman about Pedro. Society today has never heard of such a thing. Everyone seems to say what he or she feels or doesn't feel. It doesn't matter to him or her.