Collection: Ritual Kitchen

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• Ceremonial Cacao — Pure and botanical ceremonial cacao, plus nibs, powder and the cups to drink it from
• Matcha & Latte Blends — Ceremonial matcha, latte blends and the whisk and scoop that go with them
• Mushroom Extract Powders — Single-species extract powders for coffee, cacao and morning drinks
• Grass-Fed Ghee — Six cultured small-batch ghees — traditional and infused, shelf-stable, high smoke point
• Mugs, Cups & Drinkware — Stoneware mugs, glass cup sets, a cacao cup and tumblers — 4.5 oz to 16 oz
• Bowls, Trays & Vases — Stone bowls, marble and wood trays, terracotta and glass vases and ash dishes — from $24.95
• Rose & Rose Quartz — The petal you burn and the pink stone you hold — sage bundles, incense, oils, soap, cacao and rose quartz
• Meditation — Made for sitting — 108-bead malas, sandalwood incense, a handpan and a steel tongue drum, an amethyst palm stone and ceremonial cacao
• Tea — Loose Leaf & Tea Bags — Organic single-origin tea in both formats at the same price — kukicha green, Yunnan black, English Breakfast, Earl Grey and a three-tin sampler
• Gift Sets & Ritual Kits — Boxed sets and ready-made kits — stone trios, herb-and-oil pairs, four-format smoke boxes and a complete cacao ceremony
• Between $100 and $500 — The band where the shop stops selling things that get used up — jewelry, altar objects, stone and instruments that stay
• One of a Kind — Sixty-one pieces whose maker says the one you receive will not be the one photographed — natural stone, handwork and salvaged material, from $4.95
• Morning Ritual — Fifty-three pieces our makers put at the start of the day — bright incense and citrus oils, ceremonial cacao and matcha, from $6.95
• Travel & Pocket Size — Twenty-two pieces made to be carried — pocket stones, 2 oz sprays, single-serve cacao and the two travel-size singing bowls

The guide to the ritual kitchen

Most people keep a morning drink long before they keep an altar, which is why this is the shelf that tends to last. Everything here is either something you drink or something you drink it from: ceremonial cacao, matcha and latte blends, single-species mushroom extracts, cultured grass-fed ghee, handmade stoneware and the trays a small ceremony gets laid out on. The useful thing to know before you start is that the prices in this section are unusually flat within each category and unusually steep across sizes — so the real decision is which drink, and then which size, in that order.

Choosing the drink before the brand

The four drinkable categories here do genuinely different things, and caffeine is the cleanest way to tell them apart. Cacao carries very little caffeine and a good deal of theobromine, which is why it reads as warm and slow rather than sharp — it is the one people use in the evening as often as the morning. Matcha sits in the middle, roughly 30 to 70 milligrams a cup depending on how much powder you use, with L-theanine alongside it, which is the reason it is usually described as calm alertness rather than a jolt. The mushroom extract powders carry no caffeine at all; they are stirred into whatever you already drink. And the turmeric and chai blends are caffeine-free comfort drinks. If you are replacing coffee outright, matcha or a mushroom powder in a coffee substitute is the usual route. If you are adding a ritual rather than removing one, cacao is where most people begin — what is ceremonial cacao explains how it differs from cocoa and drinking chocolate, and how to hold a cacao ceremony at home covers the practice itself.

Where the price is flat, and where it is not

Two categories here are deliberately one price. Every one of the mushroom extract powders — lion's mane, reishi, cordyceps, chaga, turkey tail and the two blends — is $28.95 for a single pack and $96.95 for a four-pack. The four-pack works out at $24.24 a pack, saving $18.85 against buying four singles, about sixteen percent. So you are choosing a species, not a price: reishi for the evening, lion's mane and cordyceps for the morning, turkey tail and chaga as the everyday ones. Likewise seven of the matcha and latte blends are $44.95 flat, whether that is unsweetened ceremonial Uji matcha, a strawberry or mango matcha, chai or golden turmeric. Pick the flavor you will actually finish.

Ceremonial cacao is where the spread appears. The pure single origins run from $51.95 a pound for the Colombian to $67.95 for the Guatemalan, and the botanical blends — rose and damiana, maca and ashwagandha, chili and cinnamon, an eleven-mushroom version — sit at $63.95 to $67.95. A half pound of any of them is $27.95 to $34.95, which is the sensible way to find out whether you like a particular origin before committing to a pound of it.

The size traps, with the arithmetic

Three of them are worth knowing, because each one costs real money.

First, the cacao box. At every single origin and blend on the site, the 1 oz — Box of 12 costs exactly what the 1 lb bag costs: $51.95 against $51.95 for the Colombian, $67.95 against $67.95 for the Guatemalan, and so on through all nine. That is twelve ounces at the price of sixteen. The box is worth it if you want pre-portioned single servings for a group or for travel, and it is a straightforward four-ounce loss if you were going to measure by spoon anyway.

Second, the ghee ladder. A 2 oz jar is a taster, not a purchase: Traditional works out at $4.00 an ounce at that size, $2.90 at 10 oz, $2.10 at 19 oz and $1.91 at the 33 oz tub. The flavored ones are steeper still, $4.97 an ounce at 2 oz falling to $2.26 at 19 oz. Only Traditional and Brown Butter are offered in the 33 oz size, so if you cook with ghee regularly those are the two that reward it. The Ethiopian Niter Kibbeh has no small jar at all and starts at $42.95 for 10 oz, which makes it the most expensive per ounce at its entry size — a spice blend rather than an everyday cooking fat. Ghee versus butter covers what the clarifying actually does and why the smoke point is higher.

Third, and in the opposite direction: the wooden cacao cups are one of the few places in the shop where a multipack is a real discount. A single small cup is $7.95, but six are $33.95 — $5.66 each, nearly twenty-nine percent off. Six large are $44.95 against $9.95 each singly. If you hold ceremonies for more than yourself, buy the six.

What you drink it from

The mugs and drinkware price by count rather than by size, and the result is counter-intuitive: a set of four small glass cups is $86.95, or $21.74 a cup, while two single handmade stoneware mugs come to $101.90. If you want several matching vessels, the sets are the cheaper route; if you want one cup that is yours, the Milwaukee-made stoneware at $39.95 and $50.95 is what that money buys. Glass has one practical argument in its favor beyond price, which why glass teaware makes you a better brewer sets out: you can see the color, so you can see when it is ready. Above the drinkware sit the serving pieces — a marble platter, a cast bronze tray, hand-carved granadillo trays to $243.95 — which are laying-out surfaces rather than drinking vessels, and cross over into altar and home.

Who this collection is for

Anyone building the first ten minutes of a day into something deliberate, and anyone who would rather that ritual happened at a kitchen counter than at a shrine. It is also the least demanding entry point in the shop: $7.95 buys a cup, $7.99 a jar of ghee, and neither asks you to believe anything. If your practice is tea rather than cacao, tea and teaware is the neighboring shelf, and tea as a sitting practice and green tea water temperature are the two most useful things to read first. These are foods and drinks, not treatments; nothing here is intended to diagnose, treat or prevent any condition.

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