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The Cook’s Tarot: Dining with the Major Arcana is a wonderful blend of cooking and tarot, designed to bring awareness into the preparation and serving of food and enrich one’s daily life. It’s the first deck from Canadian sisters, Judith Stirt and Nancy Boyes. There are 22 double-sided over-sized cards - big enough to use in the kitchen - with an original tarot painting on the front, along with a description of the image and an interpretation that beautifully links the traditional tarot meaning with the language of cooking. For example, in the Fool: “In the Cook’s Tarot, our Fool is seen as a young woman, dressed in a completely impractical outfit, dancing in the kitchen. She is joyful, enthusiastic, and happily oblivious to the possibility of failure. Our Fool is not concerned with formal recipes, accurate measurement, or any advanced preparations. She is not afraid, perhaps because she has the confidence of youth. And she has not yet learned consequences. This is a beautiful card to take into the kitchen when you want the joy of cooking without the fear of failure. You will make a dish that just can’t go wrong. The only thing you will need to be wary of is carelessness. The fool’

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