Faith Food Family: Hearthmaking, Hygge, and Heirloom Recipes for the Modern Kitchen Witch

by Suzanne Hersey, Connla Freyjason (Foreword by)

Overview

The long-awaited first book from Kitchen Witch Suzanne Hersey, Faith Food Family from Iaconagraphy Press brings ancient traditions of Hearthmaking and Hygge into the modern world, with all of the sass and spice Suzanne's followers have come to know and love! A host of multicultural heirloom recipes featuring Southern Chicken and Dumplings, Irish Beef Stew, Asian Pumpkin Custard, Lavender and Rosewater Cookies for Freyja and a host of other mouth-waterable baked goodies are sure to tickle the tastebuds as well as the hearts in your home. There's a little bit of witch in all of us: come explore your magick!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780578494395
Publisher:	Iaconagraphy Press
Publication date:	05/02/2019
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Suzanne Hersey is a sassy and spirited Kitchen Witch, Mom, and business woman with a straightforward style and a heart of pure gold. Although she identifies as a Norse Witch, she finds she has more in common with Aunt Frances from Practical Magic than many modern Heathens, for she truly believes there is a bit of witch in all of us, and that "being normal definitely denotes a lack of courage!" Her open heart and open mind have led her down a whimsical multicultured path that is a magickal stew for the soul, and she serves it up with a wooden spoon to any like-minded individuals, craving to break free from the heavily-enforced "boxes" of our modern world.

Connla Freyjason is the author of Norse Witch: Reclaiming the Heidhrinn Heart and Blessings of Fire and Ice: A Norse Witch Devotional. He is a practicing Vitki and Freyjasgodhi, with over twenty years' experience as a practicing Pagan. He is also a man who deeply loves and appreciates great food, the warmth of a well-made Hearth, and the comfort of Hygge.

Table of Contents

So why call this journey Faith Food Family? When this project was just a seed, it had a whole different path. I was going to simply write a cookbook, giving recipes links to the Runes, the Norse tools for divination; the language. I was going to create a deck of cards with recipes to go along with the book. The more I talked about this with my best friend and the owner of the small press publishing my work, the more I realized that I had way more recipes than runes. So then we talked about writing them all down and sorting them into magickal categories, and that sparked something. Next, we talked about how we bless food and how we make things magickal and then a light went on. I think there may have been lightning! I had to talk about my path; how I treat my home, my kitchen, my food, my family, and how my faith has changed and grown over the years. It was time to help others who see the love in food, even if they don't think they can 'do the magic', and show them: indeed they can make the magick happen!

Contents:

Why Faith Food Family?

The Faith-full Home

Warm Hearth; Wights Welcome

Cauldron, Spoon, and Altar, Too!

Blessed Food

Hearth Maintenance

Magickal Leftovers and Spiritual Dinner Guests

A Diet of Deities

Intentional Food

Faith, Food, Family

Family

Breads and Breakfasts

Meals and Side Dishes

Desserts and Decadence

Full Recipe Index (over 200 pages of recipes!)

Recipe Index: Magickal Intentions

Appendix: Gods, Goddess, and Spirit Helpers of Hearth and Home

Full Bibliography

Includes heirloom recipes from New England and the American South, as well as multicultural recipes inspired by Asian, Middle Eastern, and Hawaiian influences.

Editorial Reviews

I always knew food was magical. I love to eat. Eating may, in fact, be my favorite activity as a human being, beyond learning new things. Then I met her…. Suzanne Hersey taught me that food isn't just magic, it's magick. She taught me one of the most important lessons I’ve ever learned as a magickal practitioner: food is love. She also taught me hygge: a Danish and Norwegian word, for a feeling of comfort, warmth, and contentment. Of course, Suzanne didn’t always use that word for the magick that she simply intuitively does; calling it hygge came later. However, it lies at the heart of her entire practice; her entire way of life. She lives her Kitchen Witchery every day in every way, and not just in the kitchen. Within this book lies the “hug” that is a hygge-filled home, and that “hug” is the source of a sort of magick that it is easy enough to learn, but more than difficult to describe. Suzanne “gives great hugs”. This book is one of them. Like the Kitchen Witch who wrote it, it is a multicultural mix of love, food, faith, and, most of all, magick. --from the Foreword by Connla Freyjason, Vitki, Freyjasgodhi, and author of Norse Witch: Reclaiming the Heidhrinn Heart

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