{"id":6809,"date":"2014-10-28T09:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2014-10-28T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:15:26","slug":"good-witches-at-the-alchemical-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6809","title":{"rendered":"“Good Witches” at the Alchemical Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Brooklyn, says the New York Times<\/em>, “real-life good witches” are selling herbal cocktails and “celebrating all things magical.” <\/a><\/p>\n

Ms. Ayales\u2019s best-selling formulas are Love Handles, a tonic said to help blast fat with ginger, Himalayan pink salt, green coffee bean and a rain forest tree berry called cha de bugre, and Lucid Dreaming, a pungent cocktail of kava, ashwagandha, rose and passionflower that addresses anxiety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although let me say, as someone married to an herbalist, that herbal medicine works but it works slowly, and one drink served up by your “alchemical baristas” is not going to do the job.<\/p>\n

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In Brooklyn, says the New York Times, “real-life good witches” are selling herbal cocktails and “celebrating all things magical.” Ms. Ayales\u2019s best-selling formulas are Love Handles, a tonic said to help blast fat with ginger, Himalayan pink salt, green coffee bean and a rain forest tree berry called cha de bugre, and Lucid Dreaming, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,95,29],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-herbalism","tag-journalism","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1LP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1121,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1121","url_meta":{"origin":6809,"position":0},"title":"Handbook of Contemporary Paganism in Print","author":"Chas S. 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