Shelf (After)Life: 11 Gothic Cookbooks to Collect
July Issue, House & Haunt, Gothic Entertaining Amanda Kotiesen July Issue, House & Haunt, Gothic Entertaining Amanda Kotiesen

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.

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In the Garden After Dusk with @briannas_planttok
April Issue, House & Haunt, Goth Garden, Culture Amanda Kotiesen April Issue, House & Haunt, Goth Garden, Culture Amanda Kotiesen

In the Garden After Dusk with @briannas_planttok

Dark foliage, medicinal botanicals, poison garden lore and the passion behind Brianna’s homestead practice

By: The Lace Ledger Staff

All day, the garden blooms in broad, sun-filled strokes, standing proud and tall, admired by passers by and onlooking neighbours.

As the sunsets, and the air cools, the noise of the day drops away until only small sounds remain; leaves dancing in the wind, something distant calling from the trees. This is the call of the garden that resounds most authentically with Brianna. Not at daybreak, but in the hours when the garden feels most like itself: a mythical, meditative place for grounding, cultivation and self-reflection.

Here, we step into her world after dusk, where the world slows, the rhythm steadies and the garden reveals what it’s been doing all along.

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