Kitchen Witch
$17.59
Add to wishlistWhat if your kitchen has always been a place of magic?
Kitchen Witch: Food, Folklore & Fairy Tale reveals the enchantment hidden in everyday food and the rituals surrounding it. From ancient food customs and healing traditions to witches, herbalists, cunning folk and seasonal celebrations, Sarah explores the stories and beliefs that have transformed kitchens into places of nourishment, healing and magic.
There are no recipes here. Instead, discover the folklore of bread, honey, fruit and nuts; poisoned apples and bewitching gingerbread; divination in a teacup; witches, wise women and beer goddesses; and the strange and wonderful food traditions of the Wheel of the Year.
A magical journey through food, folklore and fairy tale, Kitchen Witch invites you to see the ordinary differently – and discover that there may be more magic in your kitchen than you ever imagined.
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Welcome to a place of great magic – the kitchen!
Magic, superstition, cooking and food rituals have been intertwined since the beginning of humankind. Kitchen Witch: Food, Folklore & Fairy Tale explores the history and culture of food, folklore and magic – and the people who have used them to heal, nourish and transform: herbalists, wise women, cooks, cunning folk and, eventually, witches.
Kitchen Witch is an invitation to discover the magic hiding in plain sight, right in the heart of your home. Guided by the Kitchen Witch, we'll explore food, nature, magic and transformation, and discover what this ancient figure might mean to us today.
There are no recipes here. Instead, you'll find stories: stories of magic, healing and hearth; of feasts and fasts, rituals and remedies; of poisoned apples, bewitching gingerbread and seeing the future in a teacup. Discover the folklore and healing traditions surrounding everyday foods – fruits and vegetables, honey, bread and nuts – and the food customs of ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Meet cunning folk, herbalists, ale-wives and beer goddesses, and explore the many faces of the Kitchen Witch through the ages. Follow food and folklore around the Wheel of the Year, and delight in tales of witches and saints, floating apples and snapdragons, potato-wolves, tatty bogles, whisky-drinking angels – and a surprisingly persistent abundance of pancakes.
Woven through with folklore, fairy tale, history and a generous helping of food, Sarah's magical storytelling reveals a world where the ordinary is never quite as ordinary as it seems.
Discover the witchcraft within your walls, the magic in your kitchen, and the Goddess in the details.
Fascinating…beautifully crafted. Following a trail between legend and modern day working…a fabulous read.
—Rachel Patterson
A rich journey into the history and the stories handed down through folklore and folktales, helping us to reach back over the span of time to reconnect with women and women’s history, and discover ways to renew our relationship with the land. I shall be buying this for all my women friends this year!
—Glennie Kindred
Kitchen Witch is a beautiful and compelling body of work exploring the ordinary, everyday magic in our kitchens. A marvellous and captivating crossing through the ancient and revered mystical lands of food medicine and magic, ritual and celebration, potions and balms.
With the wisdom and skill of the witches who have gone before us, the author draws upon the fields of archaeology, history, mythology, spirituality, fairytale and folklore. These sagesse stories will embed deep into your psyche while the delightful line drawings augment the wisdom of the witches.
Kitchen Witch shows us that our kitchens are holy places of ritual, rhythm, recipes and remembering. Most importantly, we are given permission to live our witchery lives.
—Veronika Sophia Robinson
Additional information
| Weight | 0.42 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 229 × 152 mm |
| Sub-title | Food, Folklore & Fairytale |
| Author | Sarah Robinson |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | 978-1-910559-69-7 |
| Release date | Mar-22 |
| Signed? | Signed by the author |
| eBook ISBN | 978-1-910559-68-0 |
| Cover artist | Jessica Roux |
| Can ship to the U.S.? | YES, with no restrictions. |
Praise
A fascinating and beautifully crafted book following the history, myths and tales of the Kitchen Witch. Following a trail between legend and modern day working, this makes for a fabulous read.
—Rachel Patterson, kitchen witch, author of Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch and the Kitchen Witchcraft series
In Kitchen Witch, Sarah Robinson dishes up an engrossing feast for mind, heart, and spirit. Stewing together lore and legacy and learning, this book will delight you with its blend of commonplace magic, practical enchantment, bits of story, and splashes of curiosity. It reminds us of the power of the arts so often reserved for the realms of women and therefore lost to memory or swept aside as unimportant or mundane.
Kitchen Witch helps us to remember that we come from bread and fire, from resourcefulness and intuition, from tinctures and time, from spiced cider and healing, and from long lines of sweet jellies shining in the sun. We come from the ordinary magic of ordinary lives. In kitchens around the world, we remember.—Molly Remer, MSW, D.Min., priestess, creatrix of #30DaysofGoddess, and author of Womanrunes, Walking with Persephone and Whole and Holy
This is a thoroughly interesting and important book for all women today, helping us to reclaim our power to interweave our intuitive responses, intentions and healing into the food we create. It is a rich journey into the history and the stories handed down through folklore and folktales, helping us to reach back over the span of time to reconnect with women and women’s history, and discover ways to renew our relationship with the land. I shall be buying this for all my women friends this year!
—Glennie Kindred, author of Walking with Trees, Sacred Earth Celebrations and many more
Sarah Robinson continues her engaging explorations of Witchcraft, old and new, through the kitchen door with delicious tidbits, tales and insights to nourish your craft and your spirit.
—Phyllis Curott, author of The Witches’ Wisdom Tarot and Book of Shadows
Kitchen Witch is a beautiful and compelling body of work exploring the ordinary, everyday magic in our kitchens: sacred places of connection, listening, healing and cooking.
This invitation to consciously explore what is in our DNA is a marvellous and captivating crossing through the ancient and revered mystical lands of food medicine and magic, ritual and celebration, potions and balms.
From gardens to hedgerows to cauldrons and charms, Sarah Robinson poetically portrays our ancient roots and the calendar of our ancestresses. With the wisdom and skill of the witches who have gone before us, the author draws upon the fields of archaeology, history, mythology,
spirituality, fairytale and folklore. These sagesse stories will embed deep into your psyche while the delightful line drawings augment the wisdom of the witches.
Kitchen Witch shows us that our kitchens are holy places of ritual, rhythm, recipes and remembering. Most importantly, we are given permission to live our witchery lives.—Veronika Sophia Robinson, author of The Mystic Cookfire, Love From My Kitchen, I Create My Day, celebrant and celebrant trainer, and editor of The Celebrant magazine
This is a delicious book, which delves into all the corners of the kitchen, and offers insight into how and why we associate certain magic with food.
—Alice Tarbuck, author of A Spell in the Wild
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Meet the author:
Sarah Robinson
Sarah Robinson is a yoga teacher and author based in in Bath, UK (once named after a goddess: the ancient Roman town of Aquae Sulis). Her background is in science; she holds an MSc Psychology & Neuroscience and has studied at Bath, Exeter and Harvard University. She loves exploring the power of myth, magic and story in both her writing and yoga teaching, and is passionate about helping everyone connect to their own special magic and inner power.
Find Sarah online: sentiayoga.com/yogaforwitches
Instagram: @Yogaforwitches
Meet the artist: Jessica Roux
Womancraft Publishing is proud to celebrate not just the words, but the images of talented women too.
JESSICA ROUX, creator of the image ‘Forage’ used for the cover of Kitchen Witch, is a Nashville-based freelance illustrator and plant and animal enthusiast. She loves exploring in her own backyard and being surrounded by an abundance of nature. Using subdued colours and rhythmic shapes, she renders flora and fauna with intricate detail reminiscent of old world beauty.
