Heartburn Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter Ten Summary

Chapter Ten Summary

Three days pass in which Rachel and Mark go on with life as if nothing has happened. Rachel at one time tries to snoop in Mark's office, but the door is locked. The two act as if life is normal, eating, sleeping, having sex.

Rachel flies to New York for a food demonstration at Macy's. Rachel normally love to do this, but her mind is elsewhere. While cooking she recaps her road to food writer. Originally, Rachel was a journalist, but had filled in for the food editor for a time at the New York World-Telegram and Sun. The job had stuck and Rachel had built her career around it happily.

Rachel also thinks about her way of looking at cooking and how it has changed. Rachel realizes that at first cooking is a way to show you love someone, then it becomes a way to say I...
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