Light, Fire, and Abundance

Stay present in the kitchen and nourish the heart and soul with 120 intention-driven recipes that embrace the everyday magic of food to heal, connect, uplift, and inspire.

Crafted with intention and the right ingredients, food infuses our lives with love, creativity, joy, peace, and abundance. But making magic in the kitchen, preparing meals that meet our needs and those of our loved ones, requires a little know-how. In Light, Fire, and Abundance, Misty Bell Stiers, the celebrated author of Witch, Please: Finding Magic in Modern Times, opens her grimoire and reveals her 120 most powerful (and mouthwatering!) recipes, ones lovingly developed by her and her family members, along with guidance on the benefits of a wide range of ingredients and the sacred rituals she relies on.

In this extraordinary volume you’ll find:

120 recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, sides, desserts, sauces, and condiments (Create sugar lemon waffles to revitalize, butter crust fish to support concentration, sesame noodles to encourage connection, garlic shrimp for protection, pumpkin muffins to ward off spite, and much more)
Tips for staying present while cooking and crafting meals with intention
Instructions for tweaking recipes to meet emotional, physical, and spiritual needs
A guide to ingredients and their benefits based off ancient practices and recent evidence
An understanding of how food connects us and how to impart love through a thoughtful meal (including those made in a time crunch!)
An action plan to create your own magical grimoire safeguarding meaningful recipes
Gorgeous color photos and hand-drawn illustrations throughout
A foreword by celebrated kitchen witch Dawn Aurora Hunt

This stunning book has been crafted with love for readers of all faiths looking to embrace the power of food and the natural properties of plants and herbs. Inside you’ll find both everyday meals and ones for special occasions, as well as an inspirational guide to support wellness, fun in the kitchen, and a bounty of memories.

About the Authors

Misty Bell Stiers is an artist and the author of Witch, Please: Finding Magic in Modern Times (Apollo Publishers), a memoir of her extraordinary journey to Wicca that also featured original art from her throughout, as well as recipes. She has been interviewed by Mash-Up Americans, Witches & Pagans magazine, Ad Age, and other outlets, and has more than twenty years of experience as an executive creative director whose work has focused on leveraging her passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion to create systemic change. Misty has a BFA from the Ringling College of Art and Design and an MPS from the Pratt Institute. She lives with her husband and two children in New York City.

Dawn Aurora Hunt is the founder and owner of Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery, based in Salem, NH. She is the author of A Kitchen Witch’s Guide to Recipes for Love & Romance and runs the popular YouTube channel and podcast series “Conversational Witchcraft.”

About the Photographer

Juan Patino has been a photographer for more than thirty-one years, specializing in food, portrait, lifestyle, and advertising photography for companies including Mercedes-Benz, Gap, and Victoria’s Secret. Previously, Juan worked for fifteen years as a Grammy-nominated multiplatinum music producer. Juan lives in New York City.

Praise for Witch, Please

“Witch, Please is very useful for beginners to know the experience and journey of a modern witch. Stiers’s experiences are universal for many readers, from falling in love and getting married to sharing her Wiccan faith with her family, having children, and experiencing difficult times and loss. Through Stiers’s personal experience you will learn about the gods/goddesses, symbols and tools of Wicca; spells and curses; living day-to-day as a witch; and Wiccan holidays (sabbats) with meaningful and delicious recipes. This book is very grounded, giving readers a hint of what life could be like as a Wiccan.” —DC Public Library

“Witch, Please is a fantastic, enlightening read. Misty Bell Stiers’s personal journey working and raising a family in New York City as a modern-day witch is full of wisdom and wisecracks, but it never gets preachy. It reads like any good story should, like it is being told from one best friend to another.” —Nathan Tysen, Broadway lyricist (Tuck Everlasting and Amélie)

“Misty Bell Stiers dispels rumors about Wiccans and reveals what their beliefs mean in the modern era. Witch, Please is about a modern mom and her experience using the tenets of Wicca as her version of third-wave feminism. This book casts a major spell on anyone who reads it.” —Seth Herzog, comedian with The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

“Misty Bell Stiers’s practical, conversational writing style is relatable and addictive. From the first line she pulls you in, opening our eyes to the simple everyday magic of connecting with others, understanding oneself, and the wonders of the earth and sky. In her understated and approachable way, she shares her journey with us as she finds her individual path of honest, spiritual growth.” —Dawn Aurora Hunt, owner and CEO of Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery

“Today, in a world that seems so unfamiliar to many of us, Misty Bell Stiers has gifted us with a book that shows that we can still follow the sun over the horizon, that we can inhale the crisp air that floats over glacier-carved lakes, and that we can wrap our arms around the sacred, wherever we may find it and whenever we open our hearts to it. The authenticity of her voice is only matched by her welcoming, lyrical prose—both weaved together to narrate and define. Misty gives us an intimate view of how to find magic in modern times, magic that has always been with us and inside us, and helps us find a familiar world again. It’s honest. It’s lovely. It’s magic.” —Kase Johnstun, award-winning author of Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis

Format Hardcover

Price $35

Publication Date November 28, 2023

ISBN 9781954641204

Page Count 304

Trim Size 9 X 7 inches

Color 150 4-color photographs and illustrations