The Occult History of Bread & Baking

Bakers and bread lovers! Please join me for an exciting look at the history of bread in witchcraft and magic. 

For the uninitiated, bread is humble, as commonplace as a sunrise. Bread is an everyday staple of most human lives on earth, and in many ways, is a food responsible for allowing humans to build the complex societies we have. Within this mundane ritual, however, lies a vast history of magical technique, and a chemical, biological marvel that has fascinated chefs and magicians alike for millenia. To bread, and to the grain plants which make this substance possible, we as humans owe very, very much. 

This lecture will draw from my personal research, as well as my first book, The Witch's Feast: A Kitchen Grimoire, which looks at the tools & techniques of culinary magic throughout history, considering what a modern practice of kitchen witchcraft might look like today. In…