Winners from Win A Real Texan Meal came to eat the meals they won in a previous raffle. Each meal was the actual last meal of an executed Texan inmate.

First Performance was in Lyon, France, on 1/12/2002

Excerpt from the first Exhibit's Catalog, Lyon, France, 1/12/2002:

On Saturday 12 January 2002, in the early evening, seven persons are invited to eat seven meals in public. Each person is given a different meal. Each menu had been composed and ordered by a death row inmate, served as his or her last meal before being executed. The guests are the winners of a “game” proposed by the American artist Kate Ross. The tension between life and the inhumanity of execution is stretched to its limit, as it is presented here in the relationship to food and “one’s favorite meal.”

Excerpt from the second Exhibit's Catalog, Buffalo, 4/15/2005:

Win a Real Texan Meal (2001/05) foregrounds capital punishment’s bizarre conjunction of legal procedure and symbolic ritual. Participants are invited to enter a raffle to win a seat at a dinner party, but one with a twist: the menu faithfully duplicates requests made by death row inmates, information which Ross found posted on the Texas’s Department of Correction’s Web site (since removed). The government’s disclosure of the inmate’s last meal smacks of reality television and fetishistic entertainment, but also resonates within mythological associations between food and death.