4 magick ★★★★✩
This book is for you if… you desire to broaden your horizon on the significance and the history of food. You will (re)learn to consider the art of preparing, eating and sharing food as something spiritual and sacred.

⤐ Overall.
The cover, in combination with the promising title, spiked me interested at once and made for an eager entry into this fantastic book. The smooth combination of both historical facts and modern pagan rituals offer a refreshing insight into what food actually means for the individual and the society as a whole. I wouldn’t call myself a Pagan but everything spiritual and sacred featured in this book makes more sense for me than any other religious text I read so far.

Gwion’s smile and good-hearted nature pretty much ooze through the pages of The Magick of Food and invite readers to close their eyes and imagine themselves in her kitchen, at her table or with her in the woods. Although I constantly talk with friends about the importance of food in our daily lives it was an eye-opener to see how our ancestors and noble cultures thousands of years before us have experienced and worshipped food and how, for some of these civilisations, it connected to their deities.
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⤐ The book is structured as follows.
‘I do not find it necessary to place my hopes in an otherworldly paradise to find ecstasy. There is a place of pure and unadulterated ecstasy right here for us to experience. All we must do is fully engage with the sumptuous feast set before us, enjoyed with beloved company or unabashedly, unapologetically, lustfully eaten all by yourself. Our daily food rituals - chopping, slicing, cooking and eating - can draw us back into harmony with the world and each other.’

List of Recipes
List of Rituals, Spells & Thins to Try
Disclaimer
Acknowledgements
Foreword

Introduction
How to use this book

I: A BRIEF AND INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF FOOD AND RITUAL
1 Sumer
2 Greece
3 Rome
4 The Isles of the Mighty

II: FOOD, MAGIC, AND RITUALS FOR TODAY
5 Food and Magic
6 Food and Sex
7 Food and Healing
8 Food and Grief
9 Food and Community
10 Food and the Kitchen Witch

III: All the Recipes
11 Everyday Food Magick
12 Magick Potions
13 Food Magick for Special Occasions

In Conclusion: Time to Clean the Kitchen
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Writing quality + easy of reading = 5*

pace = 4*

structure = 3*

enjoyability = 4*

insightfulness = 5*

A few topics and connecting it with food. Some history of four places. Some recipes in book and collected at end as well. Good overall.

Interesting look at food and how it serves our history and culture. Raven takes a look at old "withcy" recipes and traditions, and reminds us that food is never just food but a way to bring people together.

Really loved all the information stuffed into this book. Was not sure if it was going to be a silly, witchy, cheesy book that was not actually useful, but this should be in anyone's home with all the good history and recipes involved. The tone of writing is enjoyable to read and the span of information is wide, but not confusing. Would have enjoyed a few more pictures is my only suggestion.

Sorry for possible English mistakes.
Prepare food from this book (or make it with your own ideas) and invoke desired deity, elements, spirits or make your wishes come true!!! However, this is not only book where you can find usual spell format like "use this fruit for that, or use that potion for that or sim", no, here value of food is explored more in how you prepare food, how is your attitude toward it, how more to appreciate your meals and understand deep spiritual connection manifested in material world between us and food. Some parts of the book are very interesting, like invocation of wine god or how to make kitchen toolkit for witchcraft...Maybe text is disconnected sometimes and some ideas for magic spells needs little more development. It is best for this modern world when you write occult book to explain, explain, explain!!! And when you think that it is enough then add more explanations!!!

This was a really fun read and very informative. It combines practical recipes with pagan rituals, which was really neat. I think this book would be a nice addition to a pagan library.

This is an entertaining book that ties together pagan rituals with practical recipes. I found it educational as well as fun. This book will teach you about rituals to improve your devotionals and how to nourish your soul. I would recommend it to patrons that are looking for unique cookbooks and want to learn more about pagan rituals.