The Magic Pantry Tarot — 78 Cards | Cedar McCloud | Food-Themed Watercolour Tarot for Home Cooks & Foodies
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“A Tarot deck themed around food, for the home cook or anyone who loves to eat! Food is a powerful force in our world as a necessity for life and a major part of culture and community. The Magic Pantry Tarot combines Cedar McCloud’s personal experience as a home cook with their signature brightly hued watercolour paintings and thoughtful, multicultural approach to Tarot symbolism. This deck focuses largely on single ingredients and is vegan/vegetarian friendly, as well as containing no depictions of alcohol.”
One of the most joyful and original tarot decks ever created — The Magic Pantry Tarot by Cedar McCloud is a 78-card food-themed tarot deck illustrated in Cedar’s signature brightly hued watercolour style, printed on double-embossed card stock at a generous 12 × 7 cm. Every card in the deck maps a food ingredient or kitchen scene onto the traditional tarot archetype with wit, warmth, and genuine symbolic depth — making this one of the most thoughtful and readable themed tarot decks available.
The Major Arcana are a delight from start to finish. 0 The Fool is Eggs — a figure in a red polka-dot bundle tumbling over a cliff edge above a rainbow, eggs spilling from the bundle, a fried egg below — rendered in Cedar’s vivid, joyful watercolour style. III The Empress is Vanilla — a magnificent vanilla ice cream sundae in a silver coupe glass, vanilla flowers and pods surrounding it on a warm pink-to-purple ground — lush, abundant, and utterly Empress. XIV Temperance is Water — a dark-skinned woman in a white lab coat with a triangle symbol, carefully pouring between two glass vessels of herbs and water at a kitchen counter, a plate and cutting board beside her — precise, balanced, and beautifully observed. XII The Hanged One is Broth — a bundle of fresh herbs hanging upside down above a cauldron of broth over an open fire, a pentagram and crescent moons on the fireplace — atmospheric and witchy. XVII The Tower is Hot Sauce — a crowned bottle of hot sauce erupting in a burst of red chilli flames against a stormy blue sea and lightning sky — one of the most inventive Tower cards in tarot. XV The Devil is Mushrooms — a pile of skull-faced mushrooms in a dark forest, a knife beside them — eerie, funny, and perfectly apt. XIII Death is Ferments & Pickles — jars of pickles and ferments on a dark background with cobwebs and a spider — transformation, preservation, and the magic of time. XX Judgment is Stove — a figure with angel wings standing at a kitchen stove, pots and pans before them, a tiled backsplash behind — the call to cook, to create, to rise.
The Minor Arcana are equally inspired. Ten of Cups is Orange — a glass of orange juice with a straw, a sliced orange, and a whole orange on a cloud, a rainbow arching above, orange tree branches above — pure joy and abundance. Ace of Cups is Strawberry — a hand reaching up through strawberry plants toward a ripe red strawberry, white flowers and green leaves all around, a river below — the box front image, and one of the most beautiful Ace of Cups in any themed deck. Ace of Swords is Radish — two hands pulling a radish from the earth against a dramatic pink and purple mountain sky — sharp, clear, and grounded. Three of Swords is Beet — two beets with their roots exposed, cross-sectioned to reveal their concentric pink rings, against a dark stormy sky — heartbreak rendered as root vegetable, and somehow it works perfectly. Knight of Cups is Cherry — a close-up of lips and a hand holding two cherries on a stem, swirling pink and blue water below — sensual, romantic, and utterly Knight of Cups. Four of Cups is Lime — four lime ice lollies on a red and white striped ground with lime slices — boredom and abundance rendered in the most refreshing possible way.
The card backs are the red and white gingham check pattern — the same pattern as the box — warm, homely, and unmistakably Magic Pantry. The box is a rigid two-part keepsake box wrapped entirely in red and white gingham, with a white oval label on the front reading Cedar McCloud — The Magic Pantry Tarot above the Ace of Cups strawberry illustration, and a white oval label on the back with the deck description. The box interior is lined in the same red and white gingham.
For home cooks, foodies, and anyone who finds magic in the kitchen — and for tarot readers who want a deck that is joyful, inclusive, and deeply original. The Magic Pantry Tarot is vegan/vegetarian friendly, alcohol-free, and multicultural in its approach to tarot symbolism. A perfect gift for the cook who reads tarot, or the reader who loves to cook.
