Cuisine Card Deck

A deck of cards based on foods. Suits of Onions, Tomatoes, Herbs, and Spices.

The Cuisine Cards are conceived as a typical set of 52 playing cards, but that reflect some of the universal sweetness of human life in any time or place. The suits are common nourishing foods. The court cards are non-hierarchical and globally representative.

Each is set in a part of the world that is historically associated with some aspect of the particular food-suit. Instead of King, Queen and Jack, there are Shaper (Cook), Mover (of food to table) and Taster. Two suits are all women, two all men.

The original images are hand-carved block prints in black with hand-painted color. Each suit is also available here in my shop, as a limited edition signed print on archival paper, printed in Canada.