The long-awaited first book from Kitchen Witch Suzanne Hersey, Faith Food Family brings ancient traditions of Hearthmaking and Hygge into the modern world, with all of the sass and spice her followers have come to know and love! A host of multicultural heirloom recipes 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!

ISBN: 978-0-578-49439-5

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 multi-cultured 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.

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Foreword for Faith Food Family by Connla Freyjason

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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Food is faith; food is love; food is magick. I love when the kitchen smells good, and I can feel the presence of the spirits I am blessed to have around me, and a contingent of Puckwedgies and Husvaettir dance gleefully at the sight, smell, and taste of what comes from my cauldrons. I love giving the gift of food; of nourishment; of magick; of faith. Every dish, whether a meal, a dessert, or a snack, is a beautiful intermingling of ingredients. Faith works exactly the same way…No matter your path, your faith, or the Gods or Goddesses that call you to Them, you are welcome here. Faith, Food and Family are necessary to sustain each and every one of us. So come on in; there is plenty to eat! Let’s chat about what Faith means, and how to make your home a Hearth, and your Kitchen your Altar, and a holy and magickal place. We are all magickal beings, after all: all of us!

–Suzanne Hersey, Faith Food Family

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This is my magick and I am so honored to share it with you! I want you to make it your own. My Mother taught me to make beef stew: it was good beef stew, but I took it and I made it my own, preparing it in the fall and winter months as a nourishing meal and tribute to the male Gods that I work with, Tyr and Heimdall. I would love for you to take that recipe and add or leave out ingredients to make it your own, over time… I try to keep things simple and quick as much as possible. I do my big, complicated cooking on the weekends to the best of my ability. I was a working parent of two small children, so I know that simple and fast work well… Grab your cauldron and your wooden spoon and let’s get started!

–Suzanne Hersey, Faith Food Family

“Carefully selected recipes appeal to the hearts and stomachs with comfort, familiarity, and ease of cooking to encourage home cooked meals with family and friends. In the book, she speaks about making the kitchen (or whatever cooking area) a special place of ritual and magic. Personal stories from generations of family making the recipes connects to family tradition and ancestral love in ways that can be experienced with all senses: sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound. Connecting the act of cooking and meal sharing to magickal experiences of Northern European traditions, Suzanne taps into the rich history of the Germanic people and the voices that reach out to people around the world today. Taking a meal even a few times a week with family or friends to explore the foods of comfort will provide a peaceful escape from the struggles of the world today. Healthy Eating!” –John Hijatt, Gifts of the Wyrd

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Faith Food Family: Hearthmaking, Hygge, & Heirloom Recipes for the Modern Kitchen Witch by Suzanne Hersey: Explore your magick!

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Bring the ancient traditions of Hearthmaking and Hygge into the heart of your modern home with Kitchen Witch Suzanne Hersey’s Faith Food Family from Iaconagraphy Press! Suzanne’s heirloom recipes are sure to tickle tastebuds and hearts, while her sass and spice remind you of your witch within. Explore your magick!

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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 multi-cultural 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!

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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 multi-cultural 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!

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.

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