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Winners of the 2011 Style Invitational edible-art contest We asked Invitational readers to put away their keyboards and open their cupboards for a contest to portray people or events from the 21st century using only food as materials. Here are the results.
THE WINNER OF THE INKER
"Bin Laden 2011: That's a Wrap" by Alethea Dopart and Kevin Dopart, Washington. An Osama Bin Laden burrito in a sea of blue tortilla chips.
Courtesy Alethea Dopart and Kevin Dopart
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Alethea Dopart and Kevin Dopart
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SECOND PLACE
“Hard to Swallow: The GOP Field” by Alethea and Kevin Dopart, Washington. Featuring Prawn Paul, Herman Cane, Fig Newt, Mitt Rameny, M’shell Bokmann and Rick Pear-y. Notable among the materials: potato lecterns; “Bokmann’s” head of bok choy and pasta-shell mouth; and Pear-y’s eyebrows of, ahem, Nutella.
Courtesy Alethea Dopart and Kevin Dopart
THIRD PLACE
“MalloMars Rover: Search for S’more Data” by Abigail Fraeman, St. Louis. Abigail, a grad student at Washington University, is a scientist on NASA’s Mars rover missions, and here she applies her technical expertise to a vehicle made with a graham cracker body; Famous Amos wheels; antennas and instruments of pretzels and marshmallows; Hershey-bar solar panels; on a surface of, duh, Mallomars.
Courtesy Abigail Fraeman
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Abigail Fraeman
FOURTH PLACE
“Bean Weingarten” by Craig Dykstra, Centreville, Va., based on an idea by Valerie and Annie Dykstra, his wife and daughter. Certainly the most impressively executed of this array of (dis)gustatory art, this leguminous mosaic rates as Invite material because only a true Loser would work for 23 hours to depict Gene Weingarten — The Post’s humor columnist and the founder of the Style Invitational — in 5,000 pieces of six varieties of flatulence-generating plant matter.
Courtesy Craig Dykstra
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Courtesy Craig Dykstra
HONORABLE MENTION
“The Bug Apple: New York Hotel Room,” by Beverley Sharp, Montgomery, Ala.The 276-time Loser depicts the hospitality industry’s critterly scourge with coffee-bean bedbugs atop a lasagna-noodle bedspread and mattress. Taking coffee in bed will never seem the same.
Courtesy Beverley Sharp
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Beverley Sharp
HONORABLE MENTION
“Meatless Weiner,” by Amanda Yanovitch, Midlothian, Va.: A tortilla-wrapped leek tweets his junk from the House gym with a baker’s-chocolate phone.
Courtesy Amanda Yanovitch
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Amanda Yanovitch
HONORABLE MENTION
“Irene: I Scream,” by Amanda Yanovitch, Midlothian, Va. Pretzel utility poles and icing power lines are no match for dangerously falling broccoli in a hurricane. Fortunately, the graham cracker house proves an unlikely survivor — something for the almond-slice screamer inside to Munch on.
Courtesy Amanda Yanovitch
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Amanda Yanovitch
HONORABLE MENTION
“Homage to Steve,” by Deb Dawkins, Denton, Md., a First Offender. Baked using a 250-year-old recipe with chocolate and royal icing.
Courtesy Deb Dawkins
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Courtesy Deb Dawkins
HONORABLE MENTION
“Eminems,” by Craig Dykstra, Centreville. Craig painstakingly assembled this portrait from about 2,800 mini-M&Ms. “And yes, I did turn all of them M side up — thanks for noticing.”
Courtesy Craig Dykstra
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Craig Dykstra
HONORABLE MENTION
“Occupy Wall(nut) Street,” by Jeff and Saralinda Contompasis, Ashburn, Va. One of our few gingerbread entries, this one from a 219-time Style Invitational Loser and his 11-year-old daughter features walnut-windowed gingerbread buildings along with the gingerbread bull at Bowling Green Park, and Gummi Bear protesters.
Courtesy Jeff and Saralinda Contompasis
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Jeff and Saralinda Contompasis
HONORABLE MENTION
“Honey, That Laser Rejuvenation Makes You Look 30 Days Younger!,” by Dan Steinbrocker, Los Angeles. Dan captures the 21st-century L.A. zeitgeist via russet potato peels. Not exactly a work of intricate craftsmanship, but we laughed.
Courtesy Dan Steinbrocker
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Dan Steinbrocker
HONORABLE MENTION
“Y2Kernels: Seeing In the New Ear,” by Kathy Hardis Fraeman, Olney, Md., and Abigail Fraeman, St. Louis. Okay, it may be a bit corny, she admitted huskily, but you have to like the groaner pun — not to mention the little naked baby corn — submitted by longtime Loser Kathy and her daughter Abigail.
Courtesy Kathy and Abigail Fraeman
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Kathy and Abigail Fraeman
Ineligible for this contest because they don’t depict something from the 21st century — also, they’re not funny — but we want to share them because they’re so beautifully done: “The Cupcake Chronicles,” by Rebecca Wrenn of Riverside, Calif., who a while back crafted these depictions of historic events for the college history classes she teaches.
Courtesy Rebecca Wrenn
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Courtesy Rebecca Wrenn
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