This is a cookbook with a difference, arranged as a series of seasonal feasts, each has a magical purpose. It has recipes to attract, seduce and conceive, to bring good luck and success or ensure a long, happy and fruitful life.
Born and educated in Sydney, Australia, Titania Hardie is the highly successful author of a range of distinctive books published in the UK on folklore, magic, and divination, and recently a new series of children's books, The Frangipani Fairies. She has first-class honors degrees in psychology and English and was awarded the prestigious Chatterton scholarship for post-graduate study at Bristol University, where she is currently completing her M.A. on the Romantic poets. The Rose Labyrinth is her first novel. Titania lives in Somerset with her husband and two daughters.
I have many Titannia Hardie books and they are all equally as beautiful, bound in velvet, they just feel really special. I've had this book for a few years now although I was never much of a cook, but I recently went through the book and can highly recommend making the pumpkin soup and the utterly mouth watering Spiced Apple Cake. Both recipies a must for Halloween! This book is now a permanent fixture in my kitchen instead of on my bookshelf and I will be making more tasty treats.