Food & Cooking on playing cards

A selection of recipes, diets, food items and advertising appearing on playing cards and educational card games over the decades.

A Barribal variant for Christmas
Christmas gift with a difference, made by Waddington’s, Leeds, 1931.

Albert Heijn’s Boffie Kwartetspel
The “Boffie” Kwartetspel was designed by Huibert Vet and published by Albert Heijn in 1936



Bahía Graf, printers, Buenos Aires, Argentina
A pack specially designed for a sandwich bar and cake shop. The jokers show a pile of sandwiches.




Baraja de la Cocina Española
A celebration of Spanish gastronomy, with designs by Silja Götz employing non-standard suits.

Bischofszell
Advertising pack for the food producer Bischofszell, designed by Heinz Looser-Brenner, with non-standard suits.




Chocolate playing cards with scenes from World War 1
An extraordinary Spanish pack of chocolate advertising playing cards dating from 1920.

Club Soft Drinks
Promotional pack for Club soft drinks with amusing illustrations of different kinds of ‘club’.


Cow & Gate Happy Family Game
Cow and Gate Happy Family game was issued around 1928 to promote nutrition products.

Deutsche Nutzpflanzen
Deutsche Nutzpflanzen - Quartett game promoting Kali brand crop fertilizer, 1938.
