Graphic by Diane Dobry with images courtesy of Jennifer Billock
Our guest today is Jennifer Billock, a practitioner who has been doing divination with tea leaves, pendulums and tarot cards since the age of 9 or 10. When she created TheKitchenWitch Substack newsletter, which is an intersection between food and witchcraft, she Googled weird ways to tell fortunes with food as a way to promote it. That is how she found out about reading fortunes with cheese—also known as tyromancy. Not finding anyone who was currently practicing cheese reading, Jennifer did a couple of years of research examining historical documents, spell books and medieval literature, and she discovered a couple of methods. Ultimately, she devised her own method,
She is here today to tell us about this journey of discovery and how she became perhaps the only cheese reader practicing (at least as far as we know).
kitchenwitchjen@gmail.com
https://jenniferbillock.com
https://kitchenwitch.substack.com
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