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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 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.

Celeb Chefs Roy Choi & Tyler Florence party for Water at the W Hollywood

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Celeb Chefs Roy Choi & Tyler Florence party with smartwater sparkling at the W Hotel in Los Angeles, also known as the W Hotels Insider Collective at W Hollywood.

Chef Roy Choi and Harley Pasternak at smartwater sparkling Insider Collective dinner at W Hollywood

smartwater sparkling and W Hotels partnered to host a rooftop dinner as part of the latest installment of the Insider Collective, an exclusive series of intimate events that have been popping up at W Hotels around the globe. The private event was held at W Hollywood with special guest, celebrated chef and founder of gourmet Korean food truck Roy Choi, who chatted with innovators of food, fashion and fitness who attended.

Chefs Roy Choi and Tyler Florence at smartwater sparkling Insider Collective dinner at W Hollywood

Those included TASTE Hall of Fame inductee and chef Tyler Florence, stylist Katie Grand, celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak, blogger Dani Song and more…

Dani Song at smartwater sparkling Insider Collective dinner at W HollywoodThe special event celebrated the launch of new smartwater sparkling, which has all of the attributes of the smartwater you know and love but with just the right amount of bubbles.

The goal of the W Hotels Insider Collective is to bring together the most dynamic people in the fashion, music, tech, design and culinary worlds as only W Hotels can. Carefully curated, these events are designed to bring together influencers from different worlds for spirited conversation over good music and even better food and cocktails.

smartwater sparkling Insider Collective dinner at W HollywoodRoy Choi is a chef, restaurateur, and author based in Los Angeles who is responsible for essential California restaurants and food such as POT, Commissary, Chego, A-Frame, and Kogi™, one of the first food trucks in a movement that has now gone nationwide. In January 2016, he will open in Watts, an exciting and innovative restaurant concept that combines high quality with fast food. While he has traditional culinary training, he also draws inspiration from music, art, and, of course, well-crafted beer.