Dark Delicacies: 13 Gothic Food Brands to Fill Your Pantry
From your morning coffee to your favourite hot sauce, these gothic brands make everyday essentials a little more menacing
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
Your grocery list probably already includes coffee, tea, hot sauce or the occasional sweet treat. If you're looking to swap a few everyday staples without changing your routine, these gothic brands are a fun place to start.
Whether you're brewing your first cup of coffee, reaching for a favourite seasoning or satisfying a sweet tooth, these gothic brands bring a little personality to the everyday while supporting the small businesses that embrace a darker aesthetic.
Dark Roast: 13 Gothic Mugs We Covet
When the caffeine craving calls
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
There comes a point each morning when resistance becomes futile. The percolating coffee pot calls to you, your thirst impossible to ignore. From delightfully macabre to playfully peculiar, these gothic finds bring a little extra character to every cup.
Shelf (After)Life: 11 Gothic Cookbooks to Collect
From witchcraft and herbalism to haunted baking and literary cocktails, these beautifully curated cookbooks deserve a permanent place in your kitchen
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
An exceptional cookbook does more than tell you what to make for dinner. It teaches, inspires and occasionally sends you down an internet rabbit hole over an unfamiliar ingredient or centuries-old tradition. These are the gorgeous gothic titles we'd happily read from cover to cover—even if we never turned on the oven.
Ritual Kitchen Recipe: The Welcome Home Vanilla Chai Loaf Spell
By Laura May
This vanilla chai loaf is infused with warm, cosy spices, creating a welcoming atmosphere for a home or a space in need of comfort. Baking with intention, especially when working towards creating a happy home, can help manifest peace and prosperity.
It’s the reason I found my narrowboat home, and I bake it once a year to keep my space sacred and filled with joy.
As you prepare this cake, focus on your wishes for your home, symbolising a safe, nurturing environment for all who dwell within it.
Laura May's Recipe for Kitchen Magic
Inside the pages of Kitchen Magic: Over 65 Enchanting Recipes and Rituals for a Cozy, Witchy Kitchen and the stories that inspired them
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
It's easy to forget where our food comes from when most of us move through at least one meal each day on autopilot. Breakfast between emails. Lunch at our desks. Dinner in front of the television. Laura May, cookbook author and creator of @lauramayritualkitchen invites us to slow down, reconnecting with seasonality (and the harvests seasons yield) and rediscovering the folklore hidden in the ingredients we enjoy every day.
Laura shares her favourite summer kitchen witch ingredients for everything from allergy remedies and herbal teas to midsummer menus, seasonal rituals and the meals that carry us from breakfast through supper, along with the meanings behind the ingredients.