The Guardian view on edible art: let them eat cake - and digest its meanings | Editorial

A feminist cake sculpture still has resonance nearly five decades after it was first created Is art eternal? Bobby Baker's forthcoming installation at Tate Britain is built not to last. But it also confirms that the best work endures. The gallery is presenting a restaging of her influential 1976 cake sculpture, An Edible Family in a Mobile Home. Visitors are invited not only to touch but to literally consume the work, in the form of five lifesize family members made of biscuits, meringue and cak...