The Kitchen Witch

A Year of Magical Cooking, Spells & Recipes

By Arin Murphy-Hiscock

What if preparing dinner could be part of your magical practice?

In The Kitchen Witch, Arin Murphy-Hiscock explores the idea that food, cooking and the kitchen can all become magical tools. Rather than separating witchcraft from everyday life, this beautifully illustrated guide shows how you can bring intention, symbolism and ritual into the food you prepare and share.

Organised around the changing seasons, the book offers recipes, spells, rituals and magical practices to help you connect with nature and the cycles of the year through your kitchen.

What's inside?

The book explores kitchen witchcraft through:

🍲 Magical recipes for food and drink
🌿 Herbs and their magical properties
🌸 Flowers and edible plants
🍵 Magical teas and infusions
🕯️ Kitchen spells and rituals
🌙 Lunar and seasonal magic
🍂 The changing seasons and the Wheel of the Year
🌱 Growing and using your own herbs
✨ Magical correspondences for ingredients
❤️ Recipes and magic for love
💰 Prosperity and abundance magic
🛡️ Protection and cleansing
🌿 Health and wellbeing magic
🔥 Hearth and kitchen traditions
📖 Ways to create your own magical recipes and practices

The book encourages you to think about the ingredients you use and the intentions you bring to them, turning everyday cooking into an opportunity for mindfulness, connection and spellcraft.

A year of kitchen magic

One of the lovely things about The Kitchen Witch is its seasonal approach.

The natural world changes throughout the year, and so does the food available to us. Murphy-Hiscock uses this rhythm as a foundation for exploring kitchen magic, encouraging readers to work with seasonal ingredients and the energies associated with different times of the year.

From warming winter dishes to fresh spring ingredients, summer abundance and autumn harvests, cooking becomes another way of celebrating the Wheel of the Year.

The magic in your ingredients

Kitchen witches don't need an elaborate collection of magical tools.

Herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, grains and other everyday ingredients can all have their own symbolism and magical associations.

Learning about these correspondences gives you the opportunity to choose ingredients intentionally, whether you're cooking for yourself, preparing food for loved ones or creating something specifically for a magical working.

The kitchen becomes a place of transformation — raw ingredients become nourishment, and with intention, an everyday meal can also become a magical act.

About Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Arin Murphy-Hiscock is an author and practitioner with more than two decades of experience in alternative spirituality and witchcraft.

She is particularly known for making practical, everyday witchcraft accessible, with books exploring green witchcraft, household magic, self-care and spellcraft.

Her other books include The Green Witch, The Green Witch's Grimoire, The House Witch and The Green Witch's Garden.

Who is this book best for?

The Kitchen Witch is particularly suited to:

🍲 Kitchen witches
🌿 Green witches
🧙‍♀️ Anyone interested in everyday witchcraft
🌱 Herbal magic enthusiasts
🍵 Anyone who enjoys magical teas and natural ingredients
🍞 Witches who enjoy cooking and baking
🌙 Practitioners interested in seasonal and lunar magic
🍂 Anyone following the Wheel of the Year
✨ Beginners looking for an approachable way into spellcraft
🎁 Anyone who likes the idea of combining food and magic

It's especially good for someone who wants to practise witchcraft in a way that feels natural, practical and woven into everyday life — because you have to eat anyway!

Publisher & Book Details

Author: Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Title: The Kitchen Witch: A Year of Magical Cooking, Spells & Recipes
Publisher: Adams Media
Publication date: 10 September 2019
ISBN-13: 9781507210298
ISBN-10: 1507210299
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Dimensions: Approximately 191 × 140 × 23 mm
Weight: Approximately 363g
Language: English