Eat your art out: Masterpiece of cake

By Ken Turetzky

Raymond Nasher is one of Dallas's leading art patrons, with an eye for beauty and a reputation for good taste. And yet, when friends recently surprised him on his birthday with a Jean DuBuffet sculpture, "The Gossiper," Nasher could hardly bring himself to eat it — but he did.

"It was wonderful," he says.

What Nasher and friends really ate was an Artcake, an edible recreation of a classic piece of art. Artcakes are a product of Oggetti (Italian for "objects"), a company run by former art history majors Julie Richey and Laura Larsen out of Richey's East Dallas home.

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