Joanne Weir Archives - The TASTE AWARDS

TASTE AWARDS Announce First In-Person Ceremony since 2020, Extends Call for Entries

The TASTE AWARDS Committee is pleased to announce the first in-person awards ceremony since March 2020 will take place March 13, 2023 in Beverly Hills.

Now in its 14th year, the annual TASTE AWARDS are the premier and original awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, Travel, Health and Lifestyle programming on Television, in Film, in Online & Streaming Video, and in Apps, Radio, Podcasts and Photography.

Portions of the live ceremony will be recorded for later broadcast in the televised awards show on select public television stations throughout the United States.

In honor of the new event date, the Committee has extended this year’s Nomination Submission period to November 2nd.

The TASTE AWARDS star-studded television special is broadcast exclusively on select public television stations nationwide, and is also viewable on the PBS App on Demand. Previous celebrity award presenters and winners have included Gordon Ramsay, Selena Gomez, Tyler Florence, Julia Child, G. Garvin, Ming Tsai, Christopher Kimball, Joy Bauer, Joanne Weir, Darley Newman, Chef Jernard Wells, Michelle Harris, Lorna Maseko, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jon Taffer, Questlove, Zendaya, Anthony Bourdain, Cat Cora, Marcus Samuelsson, Andre Leon Talley, and more.

More about the TASTE AWARDS can be seen on the site, www.TheTasteAwards.com. Get updates on Instagram at www.Instagram.com/TasteAwards , Twitter at www.Twitter.com/TasteAwards and on www.Facebook.com/TastyAwards

The Hosts from California Life (NBC) and Courtney Rich

ABOUT THE TASTE AWARDS

The TASTE AWARDS in Hollywood and Beverly Hills are the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, Health, Travel and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, in Streaming & Online Video, in Apps, and in Podcasts and on Radio.

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, 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, Allen Media Group & Entertainment Studios’ Recipe.TV, NETA, Gusto TV, AMC International, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Vox Media, Tastemade, Cleo TV, the Africa Channel, Roku, and more.

Current sponsors and partners for the star-studded awards include TasteTV, Schiltz Farms, Cision PRWeb, SIXTY Beverly Hills, R&B Cellars, Gowan’s Heirloom Cider, Clubcard Printing, BridalChocolate.com, KRCB, FilmFreeway, Villa Premiere Boutique Hotel of Puerto Vallarta, Healthy Oceans Seafood Company, Fritz Toffee Company, Socola Chocolatier, Panache Chocolatier, Bella Sun Luci Tomato Jerky, David Bacco Chocolatier, Hazelnut Hill, Chocolates to Cheer, Jensen Toffee Company, R&J Toffees, and Cochu Chocolatier.

For details, go to www.TheTasteAwards.com.

Feeling Nostalgic for Live Awards Shows? The TASTE AWARDS Special Premiere of the First Show from 2010

You can Watch the Very First Event

THE 1st Annual TASTE AWARDS

2010 Premiere Show Broadcast

DECEMBER 6 on FACEBOOK LIVE

Join us in watching the Facebook Premiere of the entire show from the 1st Annual Taste Awards (aka Tasty Awards) filmed in 2010.

The TASTE AWARDS began as the Taste Awards and the Tasty Awards, and then eventually consolidated under the title, the TASTE AWARDS.

This first-ever awards show was groundbreaking for food, fashion and lifestyle broadcast and film creators. No other show focused on these topics, and the excitement ever since around these awards has grown annually.

The first awards show took place in San Francisco, and featured a lineup including celebrities and producers such as Anthony Bourdain, Zane Lamprey, Tanya Holland (OWN), Gary Vaynerchuk, Debi Mazar, Nathan Lyon, Marcy Smothers, Novella Carpenter, Dominique Crenn, Marissa Churchill, Bobby Bognar, Zero Point Zero, Joanne Weir, No Reservations, Flip TV, Anita Chu, Cooking for the Clueless, Jolene Sugarbaker, Preeti Mistry, Average Betty, Seiji Horibuchi (Viz Media), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Chris Miller, Phil Lord), Justin Kan (Justin.tv, Twitch), Leslie Sbrocco (Check Please, Bay Area), Laurine Wickett, Elizabeth Howes, Philip Gums, E.C. Morgan, the Culinary Institute of America, and more.

Who could have predicted the even greater things these attendees would do. For example:

Justin Kan would go on to found Twitch, and sell it Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Dominique Crenn would be named one of the best chef’s in the world
Anthony Bourdain would permanently change the entire way food and travel storytelling was conceived and delivered
Chris Miller and Phil Lord would make even bigger film hits such as The Lego Movie, Cloudy 2, and 21 Jump Street.

The TASTE AWARDS Committee is proud to say that we have helped support this field, and it is a pleasure for us to say, “We were there in the beginning!” Now you can too.

Watch it on Sunday, December 6th at 11am on Facebook Live HERE

Tastemakers Summit Video: Why Both Food and Travel Series are Hotter than Ever

WATCH THIS GREAT VIDEO FROM the Media Tastemakers Summit on

WHY FOOD SERIES & TRAVEL SERIES ARE HOT PROPERTIES

A Panel discussion featuring Joanne Weir, Host, Cookbook Author, Restaurateur & Celebrity Chef, “Plates & Places (National Television Series)”. Mickela Mallozzi, Host & Executive Producer, “Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi” (National Television Series)

Theme: Why Both Food and Travel Series are Hotter than Ever, and How We Succeeded with Ours.

Joanne Weir: A 4th-generation professional cook and James Beard award-winning cookbook author, Joanne Weir spent 5 years cooking at Chez Panisse after receiving a Master Chef Diploma with Madeleine Kamman.
Joanne is a James Beard award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, and host and Executive Producer for several award-winning PBS Television series. Her newest 26-part TV series filmed in Italy, Greece, Spain, Morocco and France is called PLATES & PLACES and airs on Public Television and CREATE TV nationwide.

Joanne has written 17 cookbooks. Her most recent is a food memoir “Kitchen Gypsy:Recipes and Storiesfrom a Lifelong Romance with Food”, and features aforeword by Alice Waters. She is co-owner of Copita, a tequileria & restaurant in Sausalito, California.
Joanne writes for several national publications and travels and teaches extensively around the world as well as in her San Francisco studio kitchen.
Web: www.joanneweir.com, Social Media: @ChefJoanneWeir

Mickela Mallozzi: Mickela Mallozzi is the four-time Emmy® Award-winning Host and Executive Producer of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, a travel series highlighting the diversity of dance which airs on PBS member stations nationwide and on Amazon Prime Video globally. A professional dancer and trained musician, Mickela decided to start a journey around the world, taking her camera with her to follow dance in the lives of everyday people wherever she went. From re-discovering her family’s heritage in Southern Italy to dancing tango on the main stage in Buenos Aires, the series covers Mickela’s adventures as she experiences the world, one dance at a time. She has been featured in The New York Times, O Magazine, AFAR, Travel Channel, Dance Magazine, Forbes, Condé Nast Traveler, and more, and she has performed on various television shows including Sesame Street and The Doctor Oz Show. Since the global pandemic, Mickela has been hosting a weekly #BareFeetLIVE series on Facebook and Instagram to stay connected with the world through dance and music. And stay tuned for a 2-part special of Bare Feetcoming to PBS stations in February, featuring Carnival in the Guadeloupe Islands!
Website: http://travelbarefeet.com, Facebook: Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi
Instagram: @travelbarefeet

New TASTE AWARDS Edition of TASTEABLE Magazine released

We are pleased to release a new special TASTE AWARDS edition of TASTEABLE Journal.

TASTEABLE is a curated bi-annual journal. This experimental, limited edition, lifestyle publication covers the best of Culture, Cuisine, Commerce, and Concepts as reported by TasteTV and TCB-Cafe Publishing and Media.

Interviews, recipes, tech, fashion, celebrities, entrepreneurs, wine picks and the year’s best chocolate.

On the cover is celebrity Andrea Feczko of Vacation Creation among other programs. Also includes Joanne Weir, Wine Oh TV, Ornella Fado, the Taste Hall of Fame Inductees, Taste Award winners, Tonewood Maple, Lotus Cars US, fragrance, Vessel, as well as the Photography Award winners

Get your copy on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2SWR1m0

Celebrity Presenters Announced for 10th Annual TASTE AWARDS

Andrea Feczko

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to announce that this year’s 10th Anniversary TASTE AWARDS Red Carpet Awards Show, Reception and Ceremony will take place on March 18th in Beverly Hills* (*Advance Tickets Required).

This year’s Celebrity Award Presenters include hosts Michelle Harris (Alive and Well TV, syndicated nationwide) and Emmy nominated actor Kim Estes, Andrea Feczko (ABC’s Vacation Creation Series, 1st Look TV on NBC), The Potash Twins (Bravo), Melissa d’Arabian (Food Network, Food Network Star), Nyesha Arrington (Bravo’sTop Chef and LA Restaurateur), and Jessica Vilchis and Danielle Nottingham (California Live on NBC).

Potash Twins

Radio and TV Host Susan Irby is this year’s Taste Awards Ambassador.

Other celebrities scheduled to appear include Joanne Weir (PBS), Cat Cora, (Food Network, Iron Chef America), Heather Provost and Scott Damian (Provost Entertainment), Nicole DuPort (‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘NCIS,’ “the Last Tycoon”), Courtney Rich (Instagram’s “Cake by Courtney”), Rachel McCord (2017 American Beauty … Rising Star), The Honey Country music trio, Betty Fraser (Bravo’s Top Chef and LA Restaurateur), Dakota Weiss (Bravo’s Top Chef and LA Restaurateur), Phillip Frankland Lee (Bravo’s Top Chef and LA Restaurateur), Kaleigh Krause (Singer & Musician), Paula Hart (Lifetime Networks), Chef Jamie Gwen (Radio Host), Lisa-Renee Ramirez (Entertainment Studios/Recipe.TV), Fernando Allende, Mari Allende, Adan Allende (Mexican Dynasties, Bravo TV), Carly Robyn Green (BMG Recording Artist/Songwriter), Buzzfeed’s Tasty Network, WatchMojo, and many more.

Michelle Harris of Alive + Well

TASTE AWARDS Announce 2016 Date and Event Location

The TASTE AWARDS Committee is pleased to announce that the 7th Annual TASTE AWARDS will take place on February 11, 2016 in San Francisco. As part of its long term concept, the awards rotate regularly between Hollywood and San Francisco, with the next event planned in the City by the Bay.

The TASTE AWARDS are the premier awards show celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, Travel and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, Online, and on Radio. With its strong leading-edge culture of both culinary and technological innovation, the Bay Area community is embracing the event with open arms.

“San Francisco is a perfect location for an awards show that combines food and technology,” said Joe D’Alessandro, president and CEO of San Francisco Travel.

The Annual Awards have included appearances by stars, celebrities, producers and executives from networks and platforms such as the Food Network, Bravo, the Cooking Channel, TLC, Discovery, Lifetime, E! Entertainment Television, PBS, NBC, ABC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Sony Pictures, Esquire Network, Spike TV, Vimeo, iHeart Radio, Vice, Bio / FYI Channel, Dreamworks and more.

Says Dr. Theresa Watts of awards partner Ferrara Flame, “We are honored to once again be one of the proud sponsors of this amazing event. As the Taste Awards is an excellent salute to experts in food, wine, fine dining, innovation and fashion, San Francisco, a city that embraces all things elegant, high class, avant-garde and leading-edge, is the perfect place for such a wonderful awards show.”

In addition to the new date and location, the awards will also include the 2nd MEDIA TASTEMAKERS SUMMIT. The Summit is a one-of-its-kind gathering of Digital Media, Traditional Media, Online Video, Web producers, Platforms, Apps and Startups specifically focused on the lucrative & highly influential Lifestyle categories of Food & Wine, Fashion, Design & Travel.

“The San Francisco Bay Area is a pioneering food region and home to many talented artists and designers, making it the perfect fit to host the annual TASTE AWARDS,” commented Stacy Jed, Owner, Bluestem Brasserie. “The city has always provided a sense of innovation and expressive freedom which goes hand-in-hand with the awards that celebrate leading achievements in film, video and online content.”

Adds Television Host, Restaurateur and Cookbook Author Joanne Weir, “With extraordinary food and incomparable wines, what better place to hold the TASTE AWARDS than in San Francisco.”

Current sponsors and partners for the star-studded event include Ferrara Flames, TasteTV, Intermezzo Magazine, Cuisine Noir Magazine, SIP For the Love of Drink, Schiltz Farm’s roast goose, R&B Cellars, PR Newswire, SIXTY Beverly Hills, Clubcard Printing, R & J Toffees Dark Almond Toffee, En Voyage Perfumes, Cognoscenti, L’Aromatica Perfume, La Fleur by Livvy, Thorn & Bloom Perfume, Patagonia Provisions, Jim’s Jarhead Jerky, Fusion Jerky, BridalChocolate.com, and more.

A full list of previous Award Winners, Honorees, and Nominees, plus event photos and coverage, can be seen on the site, www.TheTasteAwards.com.

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