Monica Bhide So you think you can write a funny caption? Come on, now.. you know you can! Today, I am thrilled and pretty much crazed with excitement to be able to share this with you. New Yorker’s super talented cartoonist Liza Donnelly drew a cartoon JUST FOR THIS BLOG!! Now, all you have to do is give her a caption she loves. She will pick the winner and I will send the winner a KINDLE copy of her new book, Women on Men and a KINDLE copy of my new book, A Life of Spice,
Here is the cartoon and Liza says, “”Cartoonists write captions as they draw the idea (and sometimes the other way around): the two are integral and hard to separate. But, my advice is to have fun with this image, go wild, go intellectual, go playful. Whatever strikes you!”:
Here are her rules:
1. This contest is only open to non-New Yorker Magazine people
2. Being lewd will get you nowhere
3. Judge: Liza Donnelly, New Yorker cartoonist
LIZA DONNELLY BIO
Liza Donnelly is a staff cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine. When she first began selling toThe New Yorker in 1979, she was the youngest and one of only three cartoonists who were women. Donnelly is a public speaker and has spoken at TED, the United Nations, and The New Yorker Festival, among many other places. Donnelly has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, NBC and BetterTV, and has been profiled on radio and in numerous magazines, newspapers and online. Donnelly’s cartoons and commentary can be seen on various websites: CNN.com; huffingtonpost.com; salon.com; dailybeast.com; womensEnews.org; narrativemagazine.com. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, The Nation and The Harvard Business Review, and her cartoons have been exhibited around the world.
Donnelly has published fifteen books, her most recent is When Do They Serve the Wine?: The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman
(2010, Chronicle Books). She also wrote Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons
, Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love…in 200 Cartoons and Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker’s Cartooning Couple
(with Michael Maslin).
She conceived of and is editor for World Ink, a site of international cartoons from contributors around the globe on dscriber.com. She is a charter member of an international project, Cartooning for Peace, helping to promote understanding around the world through humor. Her website is lizadonnelly.com and her blog iswhendotheyservethewine.com. Donnelly teaches part-time at Vassar College. and is a member of PEN, Authors Guild and the National Cartoonist Society. She and her husband, New Yorker cartoonist, Michael Maslin, live in New York.
What will you win? Here are the two books –
and
WE HAVE A WINNER! LIZA DONNELLY REVIEWED ALL THE CAPTIONS, HERE IS WHAT SHE PICKED! Congrats Tom Racine
Truly a “Top Chef” who towers over all the rest!
Supposedly, he got his head stuck in the pasta extruder years ago.
“And he’s only a sous-chef.”
You know what they say about a chef with a big toque? Big head.
“he’s cooking a souffle under his hat”
“You need a hat that tall to contain such an ego.”
“Looks like SOMEONE is overcompensating for having a small knife.”
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Tom Racine – you won!!!! I will be emailing you both the books soon!! Thanks so much!!!
“do you think that’s his head, or is chef just happy to see us?”
Apprentice chefs waiting to perform in the shadow of their master
“Today a toque, tomorrow the world.”
‘Don’t worry. He can only make the same mistake five times.’
“Who does he think he is? Top Hat Chef?”
That’s one toque over the line.
No wonder the guests don’t like the cocktail wieners.
But his hat us too tall?!
My chef hat is bigger than all of yours put together
I know his ex, and she said the hat only correlates to the size of his ego….
How not to cook a dry soup
He should have listened to his Mother saying ‘Don’t let things go to your head’.
Hahaha, laughing at Janewriter’s!
Toque envy.
If Pinocchio were a chef.
Napoleon conquers in the kitchen.
He’s known for his whoppers..can’t you tell by his Pinocchio hat?
He’s taking his cooking to a higher level.
I am not eligible, of course, but I cannot help myself! Here is mine – “And this, people, is how you dispose off the body”
LOL
When I can balance a stick of celery on my head as large as that, I too will become a master chef!
He toques big, but let’s see if he woks the wok.
The one is hilarious and “feels” like the New Yorker.
This was the only way they could get the pastry chef to help out on the hot line.
Pierre’s habit of always adding too much yeast has now extended to his hair gel.
Abe Lincoln was his idol.
The other pant leg he uses to strain his yougurt.
As Julia Cild used to say, “You can. always tell the size of a chef’s spatula by the height of his hat”
Spelling error. It’s from Jan Marshall. Big hats always make her a bit faklempt.
Toque adorbs!
They say the chef with the biggest hat wins….
Recipe Mnemonic competition:
[S]hitake, [H]eart of palm, [A]nise, [K]ale, [E]ggplant. Yeah shake it off – shake it off…wait. What were we doing?
(inside though bubble) “Statistically, one out of five people don’t wash their hands…”
I saw that same hat at Target. I almost bought it but to be fair I should really enroll in this course first.
Only the trainee closest to him is thinking, what happens after Chef has run out of HIS fingers?
So that’s where he hides the peels!
Watch out! If he stops, his toque deflates.
We just punch it down every evening and let it rise again.
Big hat, not much food.
“He hides his secret recipes there”
i like luca marchiori’s one :). And here’s my attempt:
“Lesson 10: Finger Foods”
“With a annual bonus, they allow you to accrue 2 inches every year of tenure”
Thinner the slice, taller the hat!!
We punch it down but it just keeps rising…
He used to work at Trump Tower.
Taste of mettle is all hat and no kettle!
Toques in waiting…and the Big Toque.
Must be a tall rat hiding in there.
Looks like the chef stores his tricks and tips in his toque!
With the right recipe, one is a majority.
That is one tough toque.
That is one tall toquer.
I heard he has a Marge Simpson haircut he regrets.
Ummmmm! he is the CONEHEAD masterchef.
When they turn off the heat, it turns into a beret.
Size does matter
So that’s where Jaime Oliver’s been hiding.
Culinary perfection? A tall order— master chefs in waiting.
“I hear he is all toque”
“He has never been chopped.”
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED! We will be posting the winner shortly
Just like the guy with the new red Ferrari, Chef here must be compensating for something.