Cacio e Pepe Tarot

Five years of hand-cutting went into this 2024 self-published deck: a photo-collage tarot obsessed with food, seventy-eight cards assembled as what its admirers call a love letter to the divine power of eating, and one of the collage genre's standout recent releases. The premise has better theological credentials than it pretends: food is humanity's oldest offering, communion and comfort in the same gesture, and a deck that takes appetite seriously is working symbolism everyone alive already understands. Hand-cut collage carries its labor visibly, five years is thousands of scissor decisions, and that materiality separates it from digital collage's frictionless composites: the cards read as assembled meals, courses of image. It suits food people and kitchen mystics, collage-deck collectors alongside the Spolia school, indie completists of the 2020s wave, and readers who want their arcana appetizing. Ascetics, dieters mid-resolve, and anyone who reads before dinner should understand the deck constitutes a menu.