Episode 321 | The Magic of Cooking with Love with Dawn Aurora Hunt
In modern society, we often forget to slow down and spend time in the kitchen. We have forgone cooking with love because everything seems to be on the go nowadays. But there's beauty in buying fresh ingredients in a local market, seeing how food takes form, and eating it with the people you love.
In today’s episode, Dawn Aurora Hunt will share with us her life as a pagan, using spells as energy work and cooking up food with magic. She will also discuss her book, A Kitchen Witch's Guide to Recipes for Love & Romance, and how it teaches people to love themselves through cooking.
If you want to achieve your spiritual goals through cooking with love, this episode is for you.
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Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:
Discover how to incorporate magic and energy work into food.
Learn how cooking with love can bring positivity in your life amid the things happening in the world right now.
How does Dawn feel radically loved? Find out toward the end of the episode.
Resources
Follow this link to get a free signed copy of Dawn’s book A Kitchen Witch's Guide to Recipes for Love & Romance: Loving You * Attracting Love * Rekindling the Flames: https://cucinaaurora.com/shop/books/new-a-kitchen-witchs-guide-to-love-romance/.
Tastes from the Temple: Kitchen Witchery from the Temple of Witchcraft by Dawn Aurora Hunt
The Book of Kitchen Witchery: Spells, recipes, and rituals for magical meals, an enchanted garden, and a happy home by Cerridwen Greenleaf
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Episode Highlights
How Dawn Became a Kitchen Witch
Dawn identifies as a pagan embodying nature-based spirituality.
She began practicing at a young age. Through kitchen witchery, she learned the idea of cooking with intention and mindfulness.
Being raised in a very traditional Italian Catholic family, she grew up with a strong relationship with food.
Food is the way Dawn expresses her spiritual path and connects with her spirit.
A Kitchen Witch’s Guide to Recipes for Love & Romance
Her book is a culmination of her life's work for over ten years.
Dawn started a company, Cucina Aurora, which focuses on mindfulness cooking. She also teaches and gives workshops.
The book is based on a class she used to teach called Recipes for Romance.
Dawn’s book consists of easy recipes that anyone can prepare.
Spells and Witchery
The term “spells” may sound intimidating, but they are the same as energy work to Dawn.
Everything that people do involves energy.
For Dawn, whatever energy you're putting out into the world is what you're going to receive.
Listen to the full episode to learn ways for you to receive positive energy!
Food and Self-Love
If you think negatively of yourself, you will continuously get confirmation of your insecurities.
For Dawn, her book is more than a cookbook. It's also a self-help manual because she believes people can't have one of those things without the other.
The book discusses foods with specific energies of loving the self in practical, easy recipes.
Dawn’s Journey Toward Self-Love
Listen to the full episode to hear how therapy and acceptance of the “gross parts” of life help Dawn find love in herself.
In her book, Dawn talks about the importance of being honest with who you are and what you want.
The energy you put into food affects your cooking.
Spiritual Nutrition
Listen to the full episode to hear Rosie and Dawn's stories on how emotions affect food.
In Kitchen Witchery, you put your energy into the food you serve. Dawn makes sure she grounds herself and washes her hands to cleanse negative energy before cooking.
Treat your kitchen as a sacred space. You're turning raw ingredients into nourishment for the body and soul.
Food has the power to make others feel better. Dawn calls this spiritual nutrition.
Listen to the full episode to hear some of Rosie's favorite recipes and spells in Dawn's book!
What the World Needs
The world needs love, understanding, and connection right now.
Food is the ultimate connector when it comes to human beings.
The pandemic has taught everyone to slow down and avoid rushing through important things.
People need to re-learn how to connect with Mother Earth.
Where to Get Positive Energy in Today’s Society
Things that are closer to the Earth are going to have better energy.
Look at your kitchen as alchemy, a place where you do sacred work.
A small altar in your kitchen can remind you to be mindful.
Listen to the full episode to hear Dawn's advice on how you can practice positivity amid today's hardships and protect yourself from negative energy!
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5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode
[17:08] “The truth is the moon goes light and the moon goes dark. We have days, we have nights, we have good and we have bad . And those things have to balance.”
[31:15] “And I think food is an ultimate connector as human beings. It doesn't matter what you believe, who you're voting for, what town you live in, what color of your skin, what your sexual orientation is — we all eat.”
[31:57] “I think if the pandemic has taught a lot of us one thing, it is that being home, and slowing down, and connecting with these simple processes of eating, and cooking together, and cooking for our loved ones, and cooking for ourselves. Maybe it's reminded us that these are important things and they aren't things to just rush through.”
[44:32] “I always know that I have been put exactly where I'm supposed to be at the exact right moment I'm supposed to be — good or bad.”
[46:23] “The universe makes me feel like it always has my back. I always feel like I'm in this hammock, sometimes it swings one way or the other, but I'm always supported by it.”
About Dawn
Dawn Aurora Hunt is the owner and CEO of Cucina Aurora. She's been teaching and writing about kitchen and spiritual nutrition since 2010. Her latest book, A Kitchen Witch's Guide to Recipes for Love & Romance: Loving You * Attracting Love * Rekindling the Flames, is out now.
If you want to learn more about Dawn's practices, connect with Cucina Aurora on these platforms!
Website: www.cucinaaurora.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CucinaAuroraFood/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/cucinaaurora/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCg_ZxSnKkyDP33u9eNLAE2w/
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