Divine Your Dinner: A Cookbook for Using Tarot as Your Guide to Magickal Meals

by Courtney McBroom, Melinda Lee Holm

Everything is made of energy, even food. Especially food. This tarot-cookbook mash-up brings together magick and 78 recipes to transform everyday energy into something extraordinary.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VANITY FAIR • “Every recipe Courtney McBroom’s writes turns the basics into deliciousness and pairs perfectly with Melinda Lee Holm’s magickal prowess.”—Christina Tosi, chef/owner of Milk Bar

With a flick of the wrist and a shuffle of your favorite tarot deck, you’re on your way to a life of kitchen witchery. In Divine Your Dinner, tarot priestess Melinda Lee Holm and chef Courtney McBroom have conjured up a feast for the mind, body, and spirit.

Each of the 78 recipes in this cookbook interprets a specific tarot card and its energy. Pull a card—at random or with intent—from your deck, flip to the card’s corresponding recipe, and you’ll find magickal ingredients to infuse your meals with spiritual energy from the Tarot.
 
  •  Boost your powers of reflection with The Moon’s Pumpkin Corn Bread 
  •  Fight Five of Swords anxiety with Salt and Juniper Berries: Confit a Duck!
  •  Relax into The Empress’s nurturing love with A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rosé Punch
 
Making magick has never been so deliciously easy.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Witchcraft, Tarot, Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

Published October 26, 2021

Reviews

[Pattie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Let me begin by saying I enjoyed reading this. I love all things food, and all things tarot, which is why the wife bought me a copy. I read cookbook's like novels, I can assure you that I have been eating for all of my life, and I have been reading tarot since the mid 80s.

That being said, I really struggled to see the connection between the card and the chosen recipe.

As a cookbook, the scope of ingredients is impressive. Hardly a cuisine escaped their notice. As a result, this is a global recipe collection. Each recipe begins with a story, or explanation of the ingredients, which is a charming way of drawing the reader in. Every page/recipe is dedicated to one of the 78 cards, and includes the authors' thoughts on the card. And for me, these thoughts were unconventional enough that after a while I simply stopped reading them and focused on the recipes.

So a fun read; an impressive cookbook; an eh tarot book. YMMV

[Chance · Rating 5 out of 5]

This cookbook is so aesthetically pleasing, filled with good advice, ideas and of course insightful tarot readings for each recipe 🔮🧿

[Vin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never read cookbooks but I am not immune to the charm of unconventional divination. The book encourages the reader to consult their deck for choosing which meal to make and each recipe includes a passage on the magical properties of the dish. A handful of the recipes also are spells. The illustrations are gorgeous and the food is diverse and thoughtfully chosen. I found each narrative interesting and the recipes while varied in origin and ingredients seem incredibly doable for even the most casual of chef.

I wrote a list of ones I was curious of trying. According to my deck I should start with the Stone Fruit Cobbler.

[Alia Thorpe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the amount of detail on ingredients, reasoning behind preparation, and clear labor of love between two schools of thought on each page. I don’t always read cookbooks cover to cover, but the details on the thought behind each recipe was the most interesting part of this book to me. I’ll be using their ingredient list with associated elements and properties regularly in my own cooking.

The only downside is I wish substitutions for varying dietary styles were noted on the recipes, especially as about 2/3 of the book focused on meat and seafood.

[Patricia Puckett · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would be a great cookbook for someone who is just starting out in both their cooking and spiritual journey. A lot of the recipes are definitely the types that need some personal changes made from maker to maker--and that chicken stock in the beginning needs some work! I do like the introductions in the book and it is very well organized. I also enjoyed the "spell menus" at the back. The artwork was beautiful and wonderful to look at. Very beginner level stuff with some work needed on the recipes. But still very enjoyable.

[Helen (they or he) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is much more comprehensive and interesting than I first assumed. The illustrations are very pretty. The recipes are very detailed, and each recipe associated with the tarot cards really do make sense. If I were a cook and also not someone living in a third world country without an access to much of the ingredients listed here, I'd be using this book at least once a week or so. Make sure to give this a chance if you can!

[Kiera · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is *beautiful* and the premise is fun, but the recipes are rather funky. I would suggest interfacing with it in person if possible, because it greatly enhances the experience. That said, the thesis of the book makes for a very disorganized cook book, and I found myself kind of disappointed with a lot of the recipes (there are way more sandwiches than I would’ve expected).

[Brianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

A new cookbook with pictures -no matter the theme- I'll browse it! This one surprised me and had a few recipes that I saved to try.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love love love the illustrations, many of the recipes aren’t quite my taste.

[Reading · Rating 2 out of 5]

Clever idea but the recipes offered were basic

[Audrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the clever writing and I also enjoyed seeing why/ how they matched recipes with the cards