Wicca Kitchen Witchery: A Beginner's Guide to Magical Cooking, with Simple Spells and Recipes (Wicca for Beginners Series) by Lisa Chamberlain

Wicca Kitchen Witchery: A Beginner's Guide to Magical Cooking, with Simple Spells and Recipes (Wicca for Beginners Series) Reviews

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  Cheryl

  Cooking for the seasons. Sacred to the Gods & Goddesses with a bit of their background. History, suggestions along with the recipes (quite good, too.) Reasons, uses, and well-rounded information to guide you in your “magical” hearth
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  ghost reads

  Rambling and uninformative. DNF-ed 2/3 of the way through. Chamberlain's lengthy babbling about the so-called "theory of vibrations" is absolute and utter nonsense and has no place in a book touted as a resource for people interested in the wiccan spirituality, and it seems she took a lot of inspiration from hinduism as well. While I can appreciate exploring aspects of different spiritualities in the pursuit of a personalized pagan practice, it's misleading to title a book "wiccan" kitchen when very little about this is specifically wiccan. I think the book's original title--Kitchen Witchery--makes much more sense, as it implies a much more diverse outlook on pagan spirituality.
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  Dorian Jandreau

  This book is all about cooking. Includes few recipes and spells at the end. Since I love cooking- this book was very interesting to know how to use magic while cooking and learning how to always use as fresh as possible ingredients for my dishes.
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  Ashley

  I enjoyed this brief introduction to kitchen witchcraft. Though I do agree with some other reviews that advanced practitioners may find it to be very basic, I'm new to the craft and I found this book full of helpful little insights to ease yourself into incorporating more magick in the kitchen. The correspondence charts and spell ideas are very helpful, and I liked how the author had many different perspectives on how to bring magick into the kitchen through many different ways. Big kudos to Lisa Chamberlain for being very aware of the differences between classes- she talks about organic and fresh foods having higher vibrational frequencies, but is quick to say what works best is what you have access to. She even takes the time to give ideas for what those of us with tiny studio apartments can do to make a difference in our spaces. Overall a decent read, if I need a beginner's look into a different topic she has written a book on, I do think I would pick it up.
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  Lizzie-Anne

  I enjoyed this, but I also expected more recipes.
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  Mitch Please

  This was a very short book that seemed less about actual kitchen witchery than it did a discussion of various metaphysical beliefs regarding the universe. I was looking for actual recipes and discussions of food and the mystical lore surrounding it, not a philosophy lesson. Overall, not a particularly invigorating read. DNF right around 50%.
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  Jessica Donegan

  What on earth is the point of a book on Kitchen witchery without recipes?! I get it, there are correspondences in there for me to make my own, but I could have looked up tables and charts on my own. Also there's no references to how different kinds of food have lore around them. No mention of how seasonal certain foods and ingredients are and how the pagan thing to do would be to cook locally and seasonally.
  
  Also that whole section on prana is bunk. Not all foods are better raw. Cooking beans and kale releases nutrients and makes them easier to digest. I believe cooked carrots function in a similar way.
  
  Beyond that if you're stewing tomatoes or making sauce/soup. The vitamins leech into the liquids so as long as you eat the liquid too, you've lost nothing.
  
  No nutritional thought or how our bodies are sacred temples and the food should be healthy to help nourish us. Just deeply disappointing. It's not even a beginners' book because I don't think the information it gives is good even for entry level.
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  Venetia Aguilar

  Lovely Book
  
  Completely changed my views on preparing a meal and how easy it can be to make cooking more sacred and to be a space to manifest intentions for health, love, or whatever it is you want to attract in your life. Would definitely recommend this book- even non wiccans can learn so much from it.
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  DarkFantasyReviews

  This Is A Really Good Book For Beginners But It Doesn't Go Into Much Depth. It Is Filled With Informative Bits. It Is Very Easy To Read. I Am New To The Idea Of Kitchen Witchery. I Found It On Kindle Unlimited And I Am Really Liking It. The Recipes Mentioned Are Very Few But Quite Interesting. I Will Definitely Recommend This Book.
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  Claudio Yáñez

  Un trabajo honesto, incluso interesante para los principiantes, pero que no aporta demasiado a la teoría o la práctica de los que conocen el Arte. De todas formas, es un trabajo ordenado, de hermosa edición y muy correcto en la información que presenta.
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  Whitney Stanfield

  A beautiful book for beginner witches. It doesn't go into a lot of depth but it is filled with informative bits.
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  Rosangela Taylor

  Nice little book!
  
  I enjoyed the ride, I mean, the reading. It's light, concise, informative and the author presents everything in a pleasant tone and style.
  
  The book is what it says: a beginners' guide. However, it can also bring useful information and reminders, as well as new insights, to non-beginners who, perhaps, have been overlooking a few details or lacking some inspiration (like I was).
  
  I particularly liked the fact that the author does not try to mold our thoughts about what we should eat. Lisa conveys some information about food without personal bias -- and THAT is precious to me!
  
  Nowadays, with so many feds about "eating right", most of the so-called "smart eaters" (whatever that means, and we find them everywhere: in blog articles, books, nutritionists, doctors, fitness instructors, friends, etc) always want to tell us what we should and shouldn't eat. They love to talk bad about meat, or dairy, or carbs (oh, the evil carbs), or egg yolk, or whatever is fashionable at the moment. Some swear by raw eating; others claim they can be bad for you. Some advocate fasting; others say you'd better eat five times a day; and others, yet, that you should eat only three meals a day, nothing in between. It's annoying, to say the least, especially because there isn't one right thing for everyone. Each individual will have to figure out what is in alignment with their own body/mind/spirit -- their energy.
  
  
  
  For some, milk may not be a great match; for others, it's heaven! There is no one advice about diet and nutrition that will work exactly the same for everyone. Simply because each individual has a different body and mind structure, and thought and belief patterns, which will be unique to each one and thus will align differently with each food energy.
  
  So, Lisa Chamberlain won my admiration right there! She is impartial. Although she doesn't provide any spells or recipes using meat, and she may or may not be a vegetarian, her eating habits and right-and-wrong concepts didn't play a preaching role in this book. That's super positive!
  
  You may add meat to the recipes she provides, or you may create your own magical recipes based on the ingredient's information she shares.
  
  Important to notice, though, this book is not a cookbook. It's not full of recipes. It has a few basic, very basic recipes (which serve as examples for the use of ingredients she explains about). The recipes are not traditional or historical witch recipes. Nevertheless, Lisa gives a good list of resources for more recipes, including ones with meat.
  
  The strong point of the book lies on the witch philosophy about food, kitchen, the Elements, intentions and connection to Source while preparing magical meals. She provides information about certain foods' energy, without, however, trying to "convince" the readers in a dogmatic way about what is better for them (and who knows what's better for you, anyway, besides yourself?).
  
  Notice that I said food's energy, not nutrition. Of course, nutrition is a form of energy, but the point of the book is not to explain about vitamins and nutrition from a scientific standpoint, but about Qi/prana/vital energy from a metaphysicla standpoint. THAT's why I enjoyed it so much! Because Lisa got it from the core! What leads witches spells is energy, not scientific data.
  
  She does explain about the energy of fresh food being better than frozen or canned (specifically related to spells, in this case); and also mentions the way animals are raised today, which depletes their vital energy. And that's it! It's up to each reader to decide what to do, what to eat, what ingredients to use in their magical recipes, given her brief and clear information. No brainwashing or feds here, just plain unbiased, common-sense information.
  
  On a more spiritual note, I was very inspired by her suggestion on peeling an onion, bringing a different perspective to it. I love onions! Once I even wrote a poem about onions, a Sestina for Onions.
  
  All in all, this book hits close to home. I can relate to almost everything the author says. I like her style and the book is well written and edited, too. So, I'm now inclined to read her other titles, as well!
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  Eliade Weismann

  While I have foregone most all of the other books in Lisa Chamberlain’s series on Witchcraft, this one was easy enough to understand by skimming through the pages. It takes a great deal of skill to write convincingly about magic in the context of non-fiction, and so knowing how capable the author is with prose, I'm saddened to see her publish something so perfunctory. Wicca can talk endlessly about what stigma they face, how they're mis-associated with satanists or how they were historically persecuted, but one of the biggest barriers they face in finding new members is the way they teach their belief system. While I do understand that the author wanted to include some practicalities of kitchen witchery, the way she did so casts the magical part of magic by the wayside. Finally, this book uses established symbolism from more traditional rites and applies them to the kitchen, however you could figure all of it out on your own without much effort.
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  Angie

  I'm not religious or even spiritual, but I do like to cook and this book is, at its core, about cooking with intention. It was fairly interesting, although I feel like it would have benefited from further exploring the theories of how the energy exuded by the person cooking a meal could affect the quality or potency of the food.
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  Maria Finazzo Hernandez

  This is a very good cookbook. I give it a 3 stars only because I don’t have my kitchen set up for any of these recipes nor do I have many of the ingredients. It is well written and very flexible. I love how she writes about each step in the recipes. Well done and I am to re-read this many times throughout my kitchen and pantry upgrade. Thank you for all your help in this field.
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  Cielo

  I definitely enjoyed reading it and keeping the recipes. I don't enjoy the talking of vibration when it's based on another practice and not giving all the information for that and the cultural respect, as well as the high emphasis on organic and self grown - Chamberlain does say that it is preferable, but it feels like it's a must.
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  louise conquer

  new to me
  
  Im new to the concept of kitchen witchery and enjoyed reading this book even though obviously ive cooked for my friends and family for years.This has given me a new perspective for when i cook now . thanks
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  Denielle

  I love reading Lisa Chamberlain's books when I am interested in learning a new subject. Her books give you the basics and theory. As well as charms, rituals and spells for beginners. Her books help me decide if I wanna delve deeper into the subject. Great book for beginners.
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  Cecilia Ramirez

  Great book
  
  Very informative!
  Finished it in a week! Couldn’t put it down 🤍🤍
  I love that she doesn’t just give you recipes but explains the breakdown down of how to make a recipe into a magickal spell
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  Van

  Short and informative
  
  I liked all the information and advise. It was really informative and have me a good idea where to start and what to do. I think this book gives good guidelines for those who like cooking and would like to add some magic to it.
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  Chelsea Pittman

  I’m just beginning to delve into the world of Wicca. I have always been curious and fascinated by the rituals and lifestyles of Wiccans.
  
  This year, I decided it was time to find out more. Once I have read more about the religion, I am interested in adapting the lifestyle.
  
  I’ve always been someone that believes in intention. If you go in with positive thoughts, the outcome is more likely to be in your favor. This book touches on that theory.
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  Steff Daza

  Nice ecotips
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  Kimi

  It's labeled as a Wicca book, but it's actually really good about making things accessible to non-Wiccans. Interested in reading the author's other books.