My Second Book, Cheese Magic, Is Coming out in September✨

Featuring over 100 seasonal recipes, plates, pairings, and other cheese-filled rituals inspired by the Wheel of the Year 🌞

Isn‘t she a beaut?! So much gratitude to Jen Quinn for being the best collaborator/designer a witch could ever hope for!

Hello cheese sluts!

I am so excited to announce that I wrote a second book (!!!!) and it‘s coming out on September 16th. It‘s called Cheese Magic: Seasonal Recipes, Plates, and Pairings, and it‘s a culinary grimoire featuring more than 100 enchanting cheese-filled rituals. You can preorder your copy here (or scroll down for the preorder links).

Cheese Magic is organized by the Wheel of the Year, a series of eight sabbats that mark the solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter festivals in between. Each section features eight recipes, three cheese plates, and two pairings—thirteen opportunities to help anchor yourself to the shifting seasons.

The Wheel of the Year, designed by Jen Quinn

The recipes include:

• Lemon Poppyseed Goat Cheese Scones for the spring equinox

• Feta-Brined Chicken Thighs with Garlicky Yogurt Sauce to mark the summer solstice

• Pesto-Baked Camembert with Roasted Grapes for the autumnal equinox

• A Pomegranate Tonic to honor Samhain (aka Halloween)

• The Cheese Wreath Plate to celebrate the winter solstice

While my first book, Cheese Sex Death: A Bible for the Cheese Obsessed, positioned cheese as a manifestation of the spiritual, Cheese Magic takes this approach a few steps further by grounding the experience of eating cheese into the nature-based rituals of the ancient world. My debut was also more of a resource, so the natural follow up is a collection of rituals by which to enjoy the cheese you’ve learned so much about.

Raspberry Brie Love Tarts, from the Imbolc section

Pesto-Baked Camembert with Roasted Grapes, from the Mabon section

The Samhain Plate

While I personally identify as a witch, this book mainly uses spellwork as a lens through which to view the ritual of enjoying a food that requires so much work and knowledge to produce. You don’t have to identify as a witch or even practice magic to enjoy the recipes and pairings detailed within these pages. Regardless of your level of skill or interest, these rituals will have the enchanting effect of grounding you in the present and connecting you to the seasons that inspired them.

Creating this book was a huge labor of love (I photographed, wrote, developed and tested the recipes myself), and I can‘t wait for you to work some Cheese Magic of your own ✨

My girl and me

Where to Preorder:

Independent Retailers

• Bookshop.org

• Book Larder

• Powell’s

• Page-A-Day

• Wandering Raccoon Books

The Big Guys

• Books-A-Million

• Barnes & Noble

• Amazon

• Target

International

• Canada

• UK and Europe

• Australia

Each section opens with a wickedly beautiful illustration from Devin Forst. This one is for Litha, the summer solstice.

Shout out to everyone who made this beautiful book happen, especially the folks at Indelible Editions including my agent Dinah and the talented Jen Quinn who designed the absolute fuck out of this book (once again), Devin Forst for providing stunning illustrations, my amazing editors and team at Running Press, and, finally, Kath, my mom, Jacob, my partner, and Chandler, my dearly departed muse, for helping me develop the recipes. I feel so lucky to have worked with such a talented group.