Series · Prime Video · 2015
Just Add Magic
Magic with a cost. A grandmother, a café, and the rule that you clean up what you cooked.
The cookbook is a wish machine, which is a dangerous toy, and the series is reasonably strict about the bill. A girl who spices a recipe to fix her social life will have to uncook it. A grandmother's past is involved, so the magic is not a toy from nowhere. It is an inheritance with instructions.
Good for the middle years, Louise's age and up. Watch the first wish with them and do not let the wish be the part they remember. The cleaning-up is the part.
The eight
Industry
6/10
Cooking is the craft. The spell does not work if the work is sloppy.
Household
7/10
Families, a grandmother who was part of it before them, a café that feeds a street.
Piety
3/10
The book is power, not prayer. The limit on it is doing the moral work.
Courage
6/10
They admit the wish and go fix what it broke.
Republic
7/10
A small town that eats at one café and notices when people change.
Temperance
7/10
The lesson, almost every time, is that the shortcut ate something.
Truth
7/10
They hide the book and are made to tell the truth to each other.
Stewardship
7/10
A recipe passed from an older woman to girls who have to become worthy of it.
Live historicallyCook one family recipe with a child and tell them who wrote it down.
