Michelle Harris and Kim Estes Return as Hosts of the 14th Annual TASTE AWARDS

The TASTE AWARDS Committee is pleased to announce that long time hosts of the in-person ceremony, Michelle Harris and Kim Estes, return again for the 14th annual season. Michelle and Kim are well known in Hollywood with extensive CVs of amazing work, and have been long-time supporters of the awards.

 

Michelle Harris is the host of Alive & Well with Michelle Harris, a national TV series promoting the wellness lifestyle. Alive & Well is syndicated on television nationwide and on USA Today Network. Michelle is one of the media’s leading lifestyle experts and is a frequent guest on TV shows, radio shows, magazine interviews, red carpets, and live events. Michelle is also the co-founder of Animal Angels, a non-profit advocacy group where celebrities promote pet health and adoptions.

 

Kim Estes received the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. Some of his recent television credits include:

  • “The Company You Keep”
  • “9-1-1”
  • “American Auto”
  • “The Resident”
  • “Everything’s Trash”
  • “This Is Us”
  • “How To Get Away With Murder”

Kim has also starred in films and short form series, including Kajillionaire (Miranda July), To Be Me (Jansen/Dash), Underdog (Ritchie Greer), Playing with Beethoven (Jenn Page) Hellfire (Isaac Florentine), Take My Heart (Anna Simone Scott), and Senior Moment (Giorgio Serafini).

Lidia Bastianich to receive the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Awards at the TASTE AWARDS

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Award.

THE ANDREW ZIMMERN DISCOVERY AWARD honors the mission to discover new cultures, new flavors, or new talent. The inaugural winners of this new award were Andrew Zimmern and Tyler Florence.

This year’s winner, based on years of contributions to culinary, television, and entrepreneurial talent is celebrity chef, TV host and producer, author, and founder of Eataly, Lidia Bastianich.

TASTE Hall of Fame Inductee Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an Emmy award-winning public television host, best‐selling cookbook author, successful restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Most importantly, she has accomplished all of this by marrying her two passions in life—her family and food—to create multiple culinary endeavors alongside her two children, Joseph and Tanya.

Lidia has published numerous cookbooks, co-authored with her daughter Tanya, and companion books to her Emmy-winning television series Lidia’s Kitchen, Lidia’s Italy in America, and Lidia’s Italy. Her most recent book is Lidia’s A Pot, A Pan, and a Bowl, a companion to her new 26-part public television series, Lidia’s Kitchen. She is also the author of the English and Italian version of her memoir: My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food. Lidia’s cooking shows air nationwide in the U.S. on public television and CREATE, internationally, and on various digital networks including Amazon Prime, Tubitv, and Xumo. Her cooking segments are also part of her TUTTOLIDIA YouTube channel.

Lidia is a celebrated chef and restaurateur and a partner in Eataly NYC, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Dallas, Las Vegas, Toronto, and Sao Paolo, Brazil. Together with Tanya and son-in-law Corrado, she also developed a line of artisanal pastas and all-natural sauces called LIDIA’S.

Lidia is a member of Les Dames D’Escoffier and founding member of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, two non-profit organizations of women leaders in the food and hospitality industries. She is also a champion for the United Nations Association of the United States of America’s Adopt-A-Future program, in support of refugee education.

Among the numerous awards and accolades Lidia has earned are seven James Beard Awards (Outstanding Chef, Television Food Show, Best Chefs in America, Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America, Specials 2016, Special 2017 and 2018) and two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Culinary Host (2013 and 2018). In 2022 Lidia received the Silver Award from APT for 25 years on Public Television

TASTE AWARDS Pre-Announce Selected Winners and March 13 Date in Beverly Hills

 

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to pre-announce Award Winners in selected categories, as well as various Special Achievement Award Honorees, and final nominees in the Craft Award Categories for its 14th Anniversary Year.

The winners also include those chosen to receive the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Award and the inaugural BOB SAGET Award for Best Comedy or Humor.

Says an Awards Committee spokesperson, “This has been a fantastic year. We are amazed by the level of quality in this year’s entries, as well as the scope and range of the diversity of the award winners in terms of gender, ethnicity, geography, organization size, and topics, more so than any current awards organization.”

SEE THE FULL AWARDS LIST

In addition, the awards announce that this year’s 14th Anniversary Red Carpet Awards Show, Reception and Ceremony will take place on March 13, 2023 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, the first in-person since 2020.

Portions of this event will be filmed for broadcast on various public television stations across the United States starting in April and May 2023.

Awards Show Tickets can be reserved here.

For over a decade, the TASTE AWARDS have been the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, Health, Travel, and Lifestyle programs in Film, Television, Online & Streaming Video, Podcasts, Radio and Photography.

Winners, Honorees and Hall of Fame Inductees will receive their honors in person at the star-studded ceremony.

Viewer’s Choice Voting for selected categories is open now through February 17th here.

The TASTE AWARDS have included appearances by stars, celebrities, producers and executives from networks and platforms such as the Food Network, the Style Network, Bravo, the Cooking Channel, TLC, Discovery, Lifetime, E! Entertainment Television, PBS, Create TV, APT, NETA, NBC, ABC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Dreamworks, Esquire Network, FYI Network, The History Channel, Bio, iHeart Radio, Sony Pictures, HBO Max, Entertainment Studios’ Recipe.TV, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tastemade, AMC International, the Africa Channel, Roku, Vimeo, Vice, Vox, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and more.

The TASTE AWARDS Announce Final Nominees for Film, TV, Video, Radio and Podcasts

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to announce the Finalists Nominees and selected Special Achievement Award Honorees for its 14th Anniversary Year.

Among the Nominees and Inductees are well known celebrity and program names such as Padma Lakshmi, Selena Gomez, Andrew Zimmern, Gordon Ramsay, Christopher Kimball, Lidia Bastianich, Chef JJ Johnson, Chef Jernard Wells, Joy Bauer, Byron Allen, Nyesha Arrington, Kevin Belton, Molly Yeh, Ted Allen, and Edward Delling-Williams.

 

Notable Special Achievement Award Winners (Honorees) include The Bear (Hulu), The Menu (film), Baking It (Peacock / Hulu), Great Chocolate Showdown (CW / Hulu / Food Network Canada), and Selling Sunset (Netflix). Additional Award Honorees will be announced soon.

SEE THE FULL NOMINEE LIST HERE

Viewer’s Choice Voting for selected categories is open now through February 17th here.

 

For over a decade, the TASTE AWARDS have been the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, Health, Travel, and Lifestyle programs in Film, Television, Online & Streaming Video, Podcasts, Radio and Photography.

Winners, Honorees and Hall of Fame Inductees will receive their honors in person at the star-studded ceremony on March 13, 2023 in Beverly Hills at the WGA Theater, the first since 2020. Portions of this event will be filmed for broadcast on various public television stations across the United States starting in April 2023. Tickets now available.

Winners of various selected award categories will also be pre-announced in mid-February 2023.
The TASTE AWARDS have included appearances by stars, celebrities, producers and executives from networks and platforms such as the Food Network, the Style Network, Bravo, the Cooking Channel, TLC, Discovery, Lifetime, E! Entertainment Television, PBS, Create TV, APT, NETA, NBC, ABC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Dreamworks, Esquire Network, FYI Network, The History Channel, Bio, iHeart Radio, Sony Pictures, HBO Max, Entertainment Studios’ Recipe.TV, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tastemade, AMC International, the Africa Channel, Roku, Vimeo, Vice, Vox, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and more.

TASTE AWARDS Announce The Bob Saget Award for Best Comedy and Humor

The TASTE AWARDS Committee is honored to announce the renaming of the Best Comedy Award to its new name, The Bob Saget Award for Best Comedy and Humor. The award is named after the late Bob Saget, best known for his role in the hit series Full House and its recent sequel, Fuller House.

Says A.K. Crump of the TASTE AWARDS, “We are all honored to be able to remember Bob and his contribution to our culture, to families, and to comedy with this newly renamed award.”

Saget is survived by his wife, Kelly Rizzo of Eat Travel Rock, and three daughters — Aubrey, Lara and Jennifer — whom he shared with ex-wife Sherri Kramer.

 

Best Foreign Language Award Categories change Name to Best Non-English Language Awards

In recognition of the increasing influence of non-English productions on entertainment and creativity, as well as reexamination of the use of the word “foreign” and what it connotes, the Awards Committee has voted to follow other major awards competitions and rename the awards categories using the term Foreign to “Non-English”

We believe this better reflects consumer tastes, audience demographics, and other global trends.

Going forward these awards are now:

  • Best Non-English Language Program, Series or Film