Sara Mae’s Hoodoo Cookbook

The Hoodoo Kitchen Cookbook: Food, Spirit & the Magic of the 1920s Home**
Step into a kitchen where food is never just food—
and every pot, every spice, every prayer-soaked morning carries the magic of generations.
The Hoodoo Kitchen Cookbook is a journey through the heart of Black Southern folk magic, rooted in the kitchens of the 1920s and guided by the women who quietly held families, communities, and spiritual traditions together.
Told through the stories of Great Aunt Sara—born in 1927, raised in hardship, and revered for her cooking, her discipline, and her quiet power—this book reveals how the kitchen became the altar, the sanctuary, the healing room, and the place where Hoodoo lived and breathed.
Inside these pages, you will discover:
✨ Old-style Hoodoo recipes for protection, love, prosperity, healing, and peace
✨ Cajun and Southern meals that carried spiritual meaning
✨ Holiday feasts, courting foods, and wedding rituals
✨ Food spells for money, marriage, separation, and attraction
✨ How the simplest ingredients—rice, beans, greens, honey—become powerful magic
✨ The voices of rootworkers, midwives, herb-gatherers, and kitchen saints
✨ A full glossary of Hoodoo kitchen terms and traditions
✨ Stories that honor the ancestors who cooked, prayed, and protected before us
More than a cookbook, this is an ancestral archive—
a celebration of the women whose hands shaped culture, spirit, survival, and love through the meals they made.
Whether you are a seasoned rootworker or a curious soul returning to your lineage,
this book will teach you what Aunt Sara knew:
The kitchen is the strongest room in the house.
The food holds the magic.
And the woman who stirs the pot changes the world.
Come inside.
Sit at the table.
Let the ancestors feed you.