Chicago’s Kitchen Witch

04/08/2024

A million thanks (and happy travels) to Kristin Vukovic for this fabulous article in Afar! Also, go get her book!!

The telling of the future through reading cheese, aka tyromancy, might just give you some handy clues about where you're headed.

27/06/2024

Ha, best certificate of achievement ever! Thanks Aurora Expeditions!

13/04/2024

Thank you for including me, Linze Rice!!

Whether you’re looking for a cheesy date night or a TikTok-worthy dish, here's a bucket list of Chicago's quintessential cheese adventures.

10/04/2024

My retrograde book got a great review!! I’m so excited!!

Worried about retrograde? No need to stress anymore with The Retrograde Guidebook. A handy Astrology guide to all the planetary retrograde cycles until 2030.

24/03/2024

Don’t forget to come see me for a drop-in cheese reading from 3-5 TODAY at the corner of Summerdale and Clark! I have all the cheese we need! $20/reading!

21/03/2024

Want to get your fortune told with ? I’ll be in Andersonville on SUNDAY 3/24 from 3pm to 5pm for the Insidewalk Sale, at the corner of Summerdale and Clark, doing drop-in readings! I’ll have all the cheese already so no need to bring anything but yourself! $20 each for a custom reading!

20/02/2024

The cheese selections from yesterday’s readings at . Delicious divination!

15/02/2024

I got in!! So excited to share even more cheese knowledge with my tyromancy clients!

11/02/2024

It’s time! Come out to in for $20 private cheese readings! I have EXTRA CHEESE if you don’t have your own! Here until 5… hope to see you!

10/02/2024

If you’ve ever seen me at , chances are you’ve heard me sing the praises of their grilled cheese. Well, here she is, folks! Ain’t she beautiful? (And delicious, of course!) It’s a must try. 🤤

06/02/2024

01/02/2024

About to get cheesy at ! I’m always available for private sessions. Link in bio!

30/01/2024

Drink up, and ! Had a great time telling your fortunes again — this time in tea leaves! Hmu when you want a sourdough fortune… 🔮

29/01/2024

I’ll be on WGN at 3:22 today promoting my new book and reading tea leaves! Not sure what these shadows are doing to my teeth though… 😬

27/01/2024

Back to reading cheese at today! Remember, you can always book a private session if the workshop times sell out!

21/01/2024

A selection of things I’ve said during cheese readings today:

-Let your sun rise.
-Embrace the elephant.
-There’s no polite way to say that looks like a p***s.
-You beat that piñata and took names.
-You ripped your face in half.

I love this job.

07/01/2024

Currently doing saffron divination. What do you see?

06/01/2024

I love my adorable niece Danger. 😍

01/01/2024

There's a feature about me in today's Rolling Stone Italia!! Thanks so much to wonderful writer Elisa Teneggi. I really enjoyed the interview questions and I'm stoked to be in the magazine!

Si chiama tiromanzia, è l'arte della divinazione dei formaggi e se ne trovano tracce fin dalla Grecia antica. Ne abbiamo parlato, in tempo per l'anno nuovo, con Jennifer Billock, "strega" e tiromante

25/12/2023

A cheese map tea towel! My mom knows me so well. 💖🧀

23/12/2023

I agree. Seen at .

22/12/2023

I can’t tell if my tea is happy or angry.

13/12/2023

Please take a moment to vote for me! I’m in TWO categories: Arts and Culture for Best Nonfiction Author, and Food and Drink for Best New Food Trend as Fortune Telling with Food! I would be so so so grateful for your vote!!

Nominations run noon Oct. 15, 2023 to 11:59 PM Nov. 7. Finalists on this ballot are determined by nominations. Voting on the most nominated finalists will begin noon December 13, 2023, and run through 11:59 pm January 14, 2024. Our Best of Chicago issue is February 22, 2024!

12/12/2023

Happy book birthday to my newest book, The Retrograde Guidebook! Available nationwide!

Go beyond the stereotypes of mercury retrograde and dig deep into the planetary cycles, discovering how they can affect your everyday life from day to day and year to year.Every planet except Earth goes into retrograde at some point, and each planet has its own bundle of joys and...

10/12/2023

Family photo at downtown today! Missing: the cat, because obviously.

10/12/2023

Here’s another example of what I see when I look at your cheese!

03/12/2023

Cookie day #2! My favorite is my angry snowman.

03/12/2023

And that’s a wrap on our annual family cookie day. We have: potato chip macadamia (niece), chocolate chip macadamia (husband), puppy chow (SIL1), dark chocolate brown sugar (mine), something called “Santa’s Beard” that my mom made, peanut butter (SIL2 and nephew1), chocolate chip M&M (nephew2), earl gray cardamom (mine), honey butter (mom), buckeyes (brother1), mystery jam tart (possibly fig or a berry? brother2), regular chocolate chip (nephew2), chocolate fudge with marshmallows (SIL1), and chocolate-covered marshmallows (brother1).

02/12/2023

Not even a week, you guys. NOT EVEN A WEEK. 😭

02/12/2023

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