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Kitchen Witch

Food, Folklore & Fairytale

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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 is an exploration of the history and culture of food, folklore and magic and those skilled in healing and nourishing – herbalists, wise women, cooks, cunning folk and the name many of them would come to bear: witch.

Kitchen Witch is an invitation to see the magic in every corner of your kitchen. With the Kitchen Witch as our guide, we’ll explore food, nature, magic, and transformation. We’ll discover what the name of Kitchen Witch could mean to us in modern interpretations of ancient practices. May this book of stories and ideas show that there’s magic in the mundane, witchcraft within your walls and the Goddess really is in the details.

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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 is an exploration of the history and culture of food, folklore and magic and those skilled in healing and nourishing – herbalists, wise women, cooks, cunning folk and the name many of them would come to bear: witch.

Kitchen Witch is an invitation to see the magic in every corner of your kitchen. With the Kitchen Witch as our guide, we'll explore food, nature, magic, and transformation. We'll discover what the name of Kitchen Witch could mean to us in modern interpretations of ancient practices. May this book of stories and ideas show that there's magic in the mundane, witchcraft within your walls and the Goddess really is in the details.

Within this book you'll find no recipes, but something cooked up just for you; you'll find stories ? stories of magic, healing, and hearth, of feasts and fasts and fairy tales. Of poisoned apples, bewitching gingerbread, and seeing the future in a teacup...

Discover the fantastic folklore and healing properties of everyday foods: fruits, vegetables, honey, bread and nuts.

Delight in food customs and rituals from ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Meet cunning folk, herbalists, ale-wives, beer goddesses and the many faces of the Kitchen Witch through the ages.

Journey through food for every seasonal festival on the Wheel of the Year.

Enjoy fairy and folk tales of witches and saints in Scandinavia, floating apples and snapdragon in England, potato-wolves in Germany, tatty bogles and angels who drink whisky in Scotland, and a rather surprising prevalence of pancakes...

In Sarah's signature style of weaving together the magical, this exciting new book will touch on a myriad of modalities in a journey lined with folklore, fairytale and much, much food!

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

March 2022

Signed?

Signed by the author

eBook ISBN

978-1-910559-68-0

Cover artist

Jessica Roux

Praise

Praise for Sarah Robinson

Like a long, deep, beatific exhale, this gentlest book envelops you from the opening page – as soft as it is powerful, as accepting as it is radical – a treatise, toolkit and treasure, for all women who seek to re-member their nature.
Eminé Kali Rushton, editor of oh magazine, poetess and holistic practitioner

Another beautiful and instructive book for these weird modern times from Sarah Robinson. A delight to read, Sarah is now a trusted resource in my empowering library.
Alice B. Grist, author of Dirty & Divine and The Book of Tarot

Sarah Robinson has a special talent for taking disparate and complex ancient systems and making them, not only accessible, but making their similarities so glaringly obvious that you wonder why you didn’t see them before.
Gina Martin, Classical Chinese Medicine practitioner, M.S., Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM), L.Ac., L.M.T., author of Sisters of the Solstice Moon, Walking the Threads of Time and She is Here (the When She Wakes series)

Sarah Robinson author of Yoga for Witches, Yin Magic and Kitchen Witch

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

Jessica Roux, cover artist of Kitchen Witch by Sarah Robinson, Womancraft Publishing
Forage by Jessica Roux, cover image of Kitchen Witch by Sarah Robinson, Womancraft Publishing

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.

jessica-roux.com/ / @jessicasroux