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About Tracy Candido 
Tracy Candido is a New York based artist, producer, and designer, presenting innovative ideas for public consumption. Projects include exploratory food...
 
META MOUTH 
META MOUTH is a new food & eating design studio that creates bespoke food experiences and events. Email for more info.
 
Youth Food Lab 
upcoming May/June 2013 at The Door (Tribeca) funded by Culture Push The Youth Food Lab is an LGBTQ youth empowerment project that uses food and creativity as...
 
Practicing Utopia dinner 
for Culture Push fundraiser June 27, 2012 One Hanson Place A menu based on the concept of dis/utopia: grilled lamb with Savino's pappardelle, lavender-lemon...
 
Pining For You 
for Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Play Space Old Stone House, Brooklyn with Elizabeth Koke June 16, 2012 | 5pm Pining For You: A Celebration of Queer Love...
 
Lollipops: Keith Haring 
Lollipops: Keith Haring Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn May 2012 Based on a Keith Haring drawing (Untitled, 1982): prickly pear and chili lollipops. Photos:...
Lollipops, Keith Haring, Brooklyn Museum 
Art/Beer 
Heather Beer with Eric Steen Bitter & Esters, Brooklyn November 20, 2011 with Eleanor Whitney and EAT ART Eat Art is a socially-engaged artist talk and...
Beer, Heather, Brewing 
Bresaola + Custard: Dana Schutz 
Brooklyn Arts Council November 2011 with Eleanor Whitney and EAT ART Based on a Dana Schutz painting (Gouged Girl, 2008): Vanilla custard with fruit salsa...
beef, custard, Schutz 
Food Tarot 
New Museum, Festival of Ideas for the New City: May 2011 Food Tarot combined the culture of tarot reading, an interpretive medium that encourages dialogue,...
Blueberry iced tea, tarot, New Museum 
Pub Discussion Series 
Open Engagement Conference, Portland OR: May, 2011 Collaboration with Chelsea Haines and Eric Steen The Pub Discussion Series acted as a bridge between the...
Beer, Open Engagement, conversation 
FOOD IN ART: AN EDIBLE HISTORy 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: March 2011 Trade School, Prince and Mott Street, New York: March 2011 "Food in Art: An Edible History" was an...
Warhol, Finley, Kahlo 
Community Cooking Club 
Multiple venues: Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York University, Etsy, Sweet Deliverance, and 61 Local 2010-present (ongoing) Community Cooking...
 
Butter & Black Pepper 
A Pop-up spaghetti dinner Veronica People's Club Greenpoint, NY June 2010 Exploring secrets, family outcasts, and cultural history. Savino's fusilli,...
Spaghetti, Veronica's, pop-up 
SWEET TOOTH OF THE TIGER 
Multiple venues: 2008-2010 Sweet Tooth of the Tiger was a public project that used sugar and chocolate as a vehicle to explore power in private and public...