Witch in the Kitchen: Magical Cooking for All Seasons » (REVISED & EXPANDED)

Cait Johnson is an artist and writer who teaches workshops on the Tarot, dream work, and ritual-making. She is the author of Tarot for Every Day: Ideas and Activities for Bringing Tarot Wisdom into Your Daily Life. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York. Cait Johnson and Maura Shaw are also the co-authors of Tarot Games: 45 Playful Ways to Explore Tarot Cards Together, published by Harper San Francisco.

A book of recipes, spells, and rituals for celebrating our connection to the Earth and her seasons.

• Redesigned to focus on all eight pagan holidays.

• Includes new spells, rituals, and meditations, as well as 80 vegetarian recipes.

• Written by practicing witch Cait Johnson, coauthor of Celebrating the Great Mother (12,000 copies sold).

The beliefs of Wicca are rooted firmly in the earth--in the gradual circling of her seasons and the bounty and blessings she provides. In Witch in the Kitchen: Magical Cooking for All Seasons, practicing witch Cait Johnson celebrates the sacred in each season with more than 80 soul-satisfying and appetizing recipes. In engaging and inviting prose, the author provides rituals, spells, and meditations for the eight pagan holidays, inspirations for creating a kitchen altar, and ways to prepare for each season. She offers ideas for decorating your kitchen with objects of power and magic--eggs symbolizing fertility in spring, dried orange slices as reminders of the sun in mid-winter--to align our bodies, spirits, and senses to the pace and mood of the Earth's changes. Above all are the recipes for delicious, sensuous salads, soups, main dishes, and desserts made from ingredients in tune with the Earth's seasonal gifts. Serve Stuffed Acorn Squash and Fig-Apple Crumble at a Samhain gathering; celebrate Winter Solstice with Pomander Salad and Savory Yuletide Pie; welcome Imbolc with Sprouted Spring Salad and Magic Isle Pasties; or share the harvest at Lughnasad with Spicy Stir-Fried Greens and Sunny Peach Pie. With its recipes, rituals, and reminders of our ancient connections to the seasons, Witch in the Kitchen invites you to honor yourself and the Earth and delight in the magic that comes from sharing good food with good company.

Cait Johnson, an artist and writer who leads workshops on tarot, dreaming, and ritual-making, is coauthor of Celebrating the Great Mother. She lives with her family in New York's Hudson Valley.

SageWoman

More than just a cookbook, Johnson has created a primer on how to work with food and kitchen energy in a holistic spiritually satisfying way. She starts with a 35-page ode to the magic of the kitchen altars, cleaning, even how to make a kitchen goddess apron. And then she gets right down to it-the recipes. Organized by season, her year (like the Witches' Year) starts in Autumn. Each season contains meditations, ideas for ritual, decorations, as well as the luscious recipes. First-rate, through and through, with the gentle touch of a truly gifted priestess-and a talented cook. Recommended.

Witch in the Kitchen
Magical Cooking for All Seasons

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part1: Kitchen Magic Making Your Kitchen a Sacred Space Putting Down Roots The Kitchen Altar Making a Kitchen Witch Apron Kitchen Rituals Kitchen of the Goddess Part 2: Autumn Setting the Stage for Autumn The Autumn Kitchen Early-Autumn Recipes Mabon Magic Mid-Autumn Recipes Samhain Magic Late-Autumn Recipes Part 3: Winter Setting the Stage for Winter The Winter Kitchen Early-Winter Recipes Yule Magic Midwinter Recipes Late-Winter Recipes Part 4: Spring Setting the Stage for Spring The Spring Kitchen Imbolc Magic Early-Spring Recipes Ostara Magic Mid-Spring Recipes Ostara Magic Mid-Spring Recipes Beltane Magic Late-Spring Recipes Part 5: Summer Setting the Stage for Summer The Summer Kitchen Early-Summer Recipes Litha Magic Midsummer Recipes Lughnasad Magic Late-Summer Recipes Witchy Tips for Acting Out in the Kitchen Supplies Suggested Reading Index