Turkeyburger: A deft co-mingling of American culinary icons—the thanksgiving turkey and the classic hamburger—and a stellar technical breakthrough on the baking front. Grand Prize Winner [by popular election] for "Best Overall Turkey" trophy, 2009. By David Hunter.

Revolutionary in its simplicity, Sacha's 2006 Ice Turkey dextrously challenges our notions of holiday cultural iconicity while simultaneously interrogating avian corporeality. A knowing nod to Serrano's Piss Christ, her turkey, suspended in apple juice, acknowledges its debt to America's culture wars while fearlessly breaking new ground.

Which Came First?: The hard-boiled-eggs turkey conflates progenitor and present, history and hard-boiled. We are comprised of that from whence we came. Ab ovo. Second Place Winner [by popular election] for "Best Overall Turkey," 2008. By David H.

Cindy Sherman's evocative creation toys with the fundamental nexus of perception and identity. The turkey appears translucent—up to a certain point—and then becomes seemingly opaque. But is it? Who is this bird, really? What's that stuff inside of her, anyway? Does she want us to know what she's made of, her real self? Indeed, is there such a thing as true identity, or is it just a culinary construct? We leave puzzled, yet full of mousse.

By Mikael Jorgensen

Artist's Statement: "Art to me is a humanitarian cupcake and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to nourish mankind, to make the world a sweeter place." First Place Grand Prize Trophy Winner [by popular election] for "Best Overall Turkey," 2011 (second year in a row!) By Cassandra C. Jones.

Nourishing and healing? Or intestinal and revolting? Ford Wheeler's 2007 congealed chicken noodle soup turkey launches an unflinching investigation of the attraction/repulsion dynamic of domesticity itself.

David Byrne deftly addresses the mortality of the turkey with its reconstitution in vegetable form. The layering functions as a morphological evocation of sedimentary rock, thereby evoking the passage of time, while the vegetable purée evinces babyhood, enacting the cycle of life. A bold and powerful statement.

Michael Daube & David "broke the mold" in 2007 with their maple carrot cake turkey. Surrounded by the shell casings from the moment of slaughter, the turkey first seduces us with the sweet crunchiness of its illusionistic exterior before bringing us face-to-face with the true underpinnings of the sublime: turkey mortality.

Winner, "Best reveal," 2009—white chocolate with chopped candied walnuts filled with cranberry/pomegranate flavored gelatin (no added sugar) with raspberries. As artful and subtle as ever, Sherman continues to explore the turkey-mold medium with her inimitable mastery of craft and her legendary fearlessness. Every year the turkey wears a different costume, and the viewer must question—yet again—fundamental assumptions about appearance and identity and turkeys.

In this stunning mis-en-matzoh-ball-soup, we are brought back to the original site of sustenance: the womb. Floating, trussed, lulled in a warm bath of chicken broth, we experience the original state of undifferentiated oneness, of satiety. Grand Prize Winner [by popular election] for "Best Overall Turkey," 2008. By Satya K. & Frank H.

A syrupy semiotic statement reminding us of the arbitrary relationship between the slippery, butter-covered layers of signification, Stern + Mertz's proposition leads us to the classic indigestion of post-structuralist sticky inconclusiveness. 2010 Silver Medal winner [by popular election] for "Best Overall Turkey." By Amanda Stern + Katie Merz.

Following Jasper Johns' dictum, Jones takes the turkey and "does something to it", ultimately effecting a masterful transformation, effortlessly addressing Americana and object-hood in one unimpeachable statement. Encaustic-like in its encasing, the Gobble-pop is a delirious concoction of creamy vanilla with a seductive skin of chocolate, slyly referencing the genre of country fair food-on-a-stick. Grand Prize Winner 2010, Cassandra C. Jones

Winner, Best Conceptual Turkey, 2008. By Elio Bourcart and Marina Berio.

This viscerally revolting chewing-gum turkey is acephalic, yet it models, on second look, a brain. The viewer's mind and gag-reflex battle for comprehension: Is our left temporal lobe truly grape-Bubble-Yum-flavored? What of the prevelance of Apple-flavored chicklets in the frontal lobes? The mind reels. Winner, Best-Left-Untouched. By Adam & Jess & Multiple Friends