It is prefaced by a note from the title character to the author.
It is prefaced by a note from the title character to the author. That title character, after eloping, flees to her Aunt Lita's house out of fear of her authoritarian mother Rozilda. Each of its volumes is prefaced with a recipe, and the title character, a gifted cook, sets up a culinary school for women in Bahia. The novel begins with the death of Vadinho, and it is not until halfway through that we meet Teodoro Madureiras who, though he is kind, cannot offer the sexual satisfaction that Vadinho could, which leads to an element of the supernatural in the marriage bed. FTP, name this work about the titular cook and her disparate husbands, a work by Jorge Amado.
It is prefaced by a note from the title character to the author.
{Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands}