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Cook Book Review: “The Natural Witch’s Cookbook: 100 Magical, Healing Recipes & Herbal Remedies to Nourish Body, Mind & Spirit” Hardcover by Lisanna Wallance. (2020)

TheWellSeasonedLibrarian
One Table, One World
5 min readAug 7, 2021

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The Natural Witch’s Cookbook by Lisanna Wallance was a fun and informative cookbook. I didn’t, however, expect to be wowed by her cooking expertise. This book is worth a look!

Over the years, I’ve collected many cookbooks that were attributed to “kitchen witchery.” Sometimes these were fun tomes with seasonal recipes highlighting the Wheel of the Year. Other times they were pun-filled cookbooks that were fun but fairly unremarkable. I’ve gotten to where I’m gun-shy about reading a new cookbook that touts “kitchen magic” as I feel like I’ve seen it all. The cookbook “The Natural Witch’s Cookbook” was a pleasant and wonderful surprise.

Wallance has set to create a healthy and natural food cookbook that uses a vegetable-based, but not vegetarian, approach to cooking. They divided the parts of the cookbook into sections: Earth, Air, Water, Fire, Sweet, and Potions. Throughout the cookbook are helpful hints and tips from the author that put a unique spin on each recipe.

Much of the magic in the cookbook is the idea behind the recipes themselves. Each recipe highlights A, B and D vitamins and combines ingredients for best…

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Written by TheWellSeasonedLibrarian

Dean Jones is a Librarian, Cookbook Reviewer, and writer. Dean lives in the SF Bay Area. wellseasonedlibrarian@gmail.com

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