Arts & Culture
Witchy Reads for a Happy Ending: The Herbwitch’s Apprentice
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Beatrix Kondo reviews the first book in the Witches of Olderea series by Ireen Chau. “Think Jane Austen crashing a Barbie movie, if Barbie could accidentally hex a prince.”
Kitchen Witcheries
The Lore of Sage
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Siobhan Ball welcomes our readers to soup season with a look into the history of sage’s association with healing and other forms of magic, along with a recipe for white bean soup with sage and chorizo crumb.
Culture
Banish demons and slay your enemies… with parsley
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Whatever you think of the taste and its position in the culinary hierarchy, parsley’s role in folklore and magic is significantly more dramatic, bringing together life, death, love, and demons like the very best of operatic metal albums.
Arts & Culture
I bought the TikTok Cheetos tarot deck – and it’s surprisingly good
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My “For You Page,” or FYP, on TikTok had recommended a filter that generates a tarot card featuring the sunglasses-wearing mascot for Cheetos snacks, Chester Cheetah. I smashed the filter button so hard that I cracked a nail.
Culture
Recipes to celebrate the Sun: strawberries, milk, and walnuts
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There’s something about the solstices that seems to connect with a deep, fundamental part of the human psyche. The solstice is a moment where the world seems to hold its breath, the sun hung motionless overhead or hidden below the horizon, before it dives across the threshold of one side of the year to the other: light to dark and dark to light.