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Title: Witch in the Kitchen: Magical Cooking for All Seasons by Cait Johnson, Johanne Renbeck ISBN: 0-89281-980-4 Publisher: Destiny Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring and Truly Useful
Comment: With the first chapter of Witch in the Kitchen, I found myself looking at my kitchen in a whole new light. Cait Johnson discusses ways to add some enchantment to your kitchen, and while I really didn't use her exact recommendations, I was inspired to use my own ideas to change my kitchen into the magickal center of my home. That alone made this a great purchase for me. However, there's more to the book than the first small chapter of kitchen ideas....
Autumn begins a short "Setting the Stage for Autumn" followed by "The Autumn Kitchen". She really gets you in the mood of the season. Then a short bit on an Autumn spell before diving into the recipes, divided up into recipes making up a menu each for early-Autumn, mid-Autumn and late-Autumn. Sections on the solstice celebrations (recommended kitchen rituals, spells, meditations, poetry) are inserted in the appropriate recipe area. Chapters on Winter, Spring and Summer follow in a similar manner.
I do love to cook but I like someone else to plan out the menu (main dish, side dish, dessert, etc.), and Cait Johnson has done that for me in this book. The ingredients tend to be practical, common items easily found at the grocery, and the recipes are not too unusual for my wary family. I haven't made the infamous Aprodite's Love Cakes mentioned in an earlier review (that recipe does call for a few less common ingredients) but other recipes have turned out great for me. A bonus for our family, the recipes are vegetarian and often recommend alternatives for the vegan cook as well.
Overall, I found this to be an enchanting resource that I use every season, and I plan to look at other titles by the author.
Rating: 5
Summary: A heartfelt offering
Comment: This book lays out a spiritual practice of reconnection with nature and the seasons of the year through the food we eat and its preparation. As with all paths there is a need to establish the environment and rituals for practice that enable the alchemy of transformation. With chapters on setting up the sacred space of the kitchen and rituals based around the wheel of the year, the stage is set for connection to our world through feeding our bodies. The healthy, earthy vegetarian recipes sound deeply satisfying for both body and soul. The dishes I have tried were a joy to make and eat.
Rating: 3
Summary: Don't buy it for the love cakes...
Comment: Overall this is a really nice little book, it's well laid out, the illustrations are fitting, and the extra info included is very apropriate to its theme.
But the proof of any good recipe book is in the success of its recipes. I believe there are 3 categories a good recipe should fit: it must sound delicious, it should smell good when baking/cooking, and the finished product should make you not want to wait a proper ten minute cooling period to stuff it in your mouth. Aphrodities Love Cookies only fit the first 2 of those requirements, looking more like a splat of poo when pulled from the oven. (sorry Cait) They tasted nice and herby but looked absolutley dreadful. I finally decided that the reason they are called "love cookies" is becuase only someone who truly loves you will try them. If anyone else has had the same problem with this particular recipe, you might try using all the witchy herbal ingredients with a good, tried and true, oatmeal cookie base.
I will still try some of the other recipes in the book, every one sounds delicious. However, I am suspicious now as to how accurate the ingredient measurements are. It's lucky for my family that I keep a batwing and toadstool pizza in the freezer.
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Title: The Real Witches' Kitchen: Spells, Recipes, Oils, Lotions and Potions from the Witches' Hearth by Kate West ISBN: 0007117868 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cooking by Moonlight: A Witch's Guide to Culinary Magic by Karri Ann Allrich ISBN: 1567180159 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Garden Witchery: Magick from the Ground Up by Ellen Dugan, Zins ISBN: 0738703184 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Kitchen Witch's Cookbook by Patricia Telesco ISBN: 1567187072 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen by Scott Cunningham ISBN: 0738702269 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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