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Goddess In the Kitchen: The Magic and Making of Food
We all eat to survive, but is it not just as important to eat to really live? Can we use the food we eat every day to manifest a better life for ourselves? Absolutely! The food we prepare, serve, and eat is one of the most intimate processes of our day and it can also be one of our most powerful magical tools. This book fully explores the energy that we invest into food during its preparation, how emotions during cooking, serving, and eating affect the people who eat the food, as well as how to instill particular energies into food to create a desired outcome. What foods are most closely akin to Earth, Fire, Air, or Water? What foods stimulate a situation and which ones quiet it to sleep? The author leads you on a fascinating journey through the magical properties of the foods in our world and how we can best use those energies to effect positive change.In addition to the fascinating subject of energy and food, this book also contains more than 75 delicious recipes from the author's own collection, as well as their elemental affiliation.
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105 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 10, 2013
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About the author
Katrina Rasbold
58 books23 followersKatrina Rasbold has provided insightful and guidance to countless individuals over the past three decades through both her life path consultations and her informative classes and workshops. She has worked with teachers all over the world, including three years of training in England and two years of practice in the Marianas Islands. She is a professional life coach who holds a PhD in Religion. She is married and she and her husband, Eric, co-authored the Bio-Universal Energy book series.
Katrina lives in the forested Eden of the High Sierras of Northern California near Tahoe. Katrina is a hermit who lives inside her beautiful mountain home, pecking away at her computer keyboard. She frequently teaches workshops on different aspects of Bio-Universal energy usage in the El Dorado, Sacramento, and Placer counties of California. She has six children, two teens at home and four who are grown up and out there loose in the world.
Katrina lives in the forested Eden of the High Sierras of Northern California near Tahoe. Katrina is a hermit who lives inside her beautiful mountain home, pecking away at her computer keyboard. She frequently teaches workshops on different aspects of Bio-Universal energy usage in the El Dorado, Sacramento, and Placer counties of California. She has six children, two teens at home and four who are grown up and out there loose in the world.
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November 22, 2015
This book started out quite interesting. I was looking for a book that was available on kindle to read about kitchen witchery, and this one looked promising. It helps that it's available on kindle unlimited to borrow for free. I probably wouldn't have gotten it otherwise.
I think the author began the book with enthusiasm and she has a way of writing that makes one feel as if they are sitting there with her and having a coffee, talking candidly. The topic of the book is very promising, but I did find myself skimming through some of the topics that were too simple and common sense.
The better parts were when she talked about preparing a magical meal and putting intent into the food. I thought that the book was picking up again, but it let me down.
As soon as it grabbed my attention, it ended with what the author calls,"75 delicious recipes from her own collection." I found the recipes to be VERY ordinary and ones that I have known in my head now for years without the need of a cookbook recipe.
The end of the book has some correspondences with color, a list of hints while preparing food. The hints are a little helpful, the colors - every witch knows already. I think that had the book been planned out a little more it could have been much better. There are others out there that are worth the money, this one isn't. You will gain very little information from it about kitchen witchery. The description of the book is pretty much a summary of the contents of the book - nothing more inside to elaborate on the topics. If you aren't a witch, you might gain a small bit of information on the subject of being one, and without the stereotypical stuff.
I think the author began the book with enthusiasm and she has a way of writing that makes one feel as if they are sitting there with her and having a coffee, talking candidly. The topic of the book is very promising, but I did find myself skimming through some of the topics that were too simple and common sense.
The better parts were when she talked about preparing a magical meal and putting intent into the food. I thought that the book was picking up again, but it let me down.
As soon as it grabbed my attention, it ended with what the author calls,"75 delicious recipes from her own collection." I found the recipes to be VERY ordinary and ones that I have known in my head now for years without the need of a cookbook recipe.
The end of the book has some correspondences with color, a list of hints while preparing food. The hints are a little helpful, the colors - every witch knows already. I think that had the book been planned out a little more it could have been much better. There are others out there that are worth the money, this one isn't. You will gain very little information from it about kitchen witchery. The description of the book is pretty much a summary of the contents of the book - nothing more inside to elaborate on the topics. If you aren't a witch, you might gain a small bit of information on the subject of being one, and without the stereotypical stuff.
February 17, 2016
I struggled with rating this, because all in all, the writing was good. Easy to get into, I got a good sense of who she is and how she practices her faith. The first section of the book was quite good, very thoughtfully written--even as a practicing kitchen witch, I found food for thought in what she had to say (pun intended). That said, the recipe section was a little lackluster. I think I would have liked this book better if she'd written a longer section about her beliefs, about incorporating magic into food, and just sprinkled some of her favorite recipes throughout. She didn't seem like she was really, truly feeling writing a cookbook, but felt like maybe she SHOULD. And, you know, not wanting to write a cookbook is fine! Just...the book as a whole struggled for trying to make it into a quasi-cookbook.
I'd still recommend this for the first section alone. That was good.
I'd still recommend this for the first section alone. That was good.
November 12, 2021
Her recipes are 100/10
July 18, 2016
I loved the introduction to the recipes in this book. Like in Weather Witchery, the passion for the topic at hand really showed itself in this work. Rasbold does an amazing job highlighting the important and complicated relationship we have with food. I appreciated how she mentions we all handle different food on an individual level and that each person has to go through their own trial and error on what to eat and how to eat.
I also enjoyed the nuanced look at what makes a good meal from memories we may have with food to our surrounding to other environmental factors only an individual knows. She does an excellent job explaining how important cooking is to our culture and to any one person.
I liked when she spoke about how foods possessed certain elemental qualities. I would have enjoyed more conversation surrounding what combining different elements in the food process would bring about in the physical body. I would also have liked if she could have linked the foods to seasonal/holiday times either from growing seasons or their predominate elemental make up. Also I'd have enjoyed more discussion on what ingesting these elemental qualities would do for a human body. How should we feel eating and digesting strong fire influence? What kind of changes should we expect to manifest? Food has physical, mental, and spiritual components and I would have loved to hear more on how careful thoughtful meal planning can effect our bodies and the bodies/lives of those we love.
The recipes were simple and economical. Because I'm personally on a very restrictive diet that strongly encourages ingesting whole natural foods--organic when I can manage it and rarely with meats or desserts, there was less use in the recipes than I'd normally would have found. I liked how candid she was with the recipes though and I found some of the ideas interesting even if I wouldn't use them.
I also enjoyed the nuanced look at what makes a good meal from memories we may have with food to our surrounding to other environmental factors only an individual knows. She does an excellent job explaining how important cooking is to our culture and to any one person.
I liked when she spoke about how foods possessed certain elemental qualities. I would have enjoyed more conversation surrounding what combining different elements in the food process would bring about in the physical body. I would also have liked if she could have linked the foods to seasonal/holiday times either from growing seasons or their predominate elemental make up. Also I'd have enjoyed more discussion on what ingesting these elemental qualities would do for a human body. How should we feel eating and digesting strong fire influence? What kind of changes should we expect to manifest? Food has physical, mental, and spiritual components and I would have loved to hear more on how careful thoughtful meal planning can effect our bodies and the bodies/lives of those we love.
The recipes were simple and economical. Because I'm personally on a very restrictive diet that strongly encourages ingesting whole natural foods--organic when I can manage it and rarely with meats or desserts, there was less use in the recipes than I'd normally would have found. I liked how candid she was with the recipes though and I found some of the ideas interesting even if I wouldn't use them.
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