Like water for chocolate

I watched this last night and loved it. I haven't read the book, but I think I would enjoy it. So far magical realism has treated me well in books. I had never imagined it would be possible to pull it off in a movie, or rather pull off a movie based on a book of this kind. My only quibble was with the sound production: at times it was all too obvious that you were watching voice-over, and at times it was too stilted. I loved the fact that the dark scenes had the orange glow that dark scenes have when photographed with a fast lens on a still camera... But what does the title mean?