TASTE AWARDS Winner Kid Chef Eliana Wins Food Network’s Chopped Teen Tournament Battle 4

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16-year-old Kid Chef Eliana (Eliana de Las Casas), TASTE AWARDS-winning chef, cookbook author, and radio show host, is a competitor on Food Network’s Chopped Teen Tournament. The tournament has 16 teens battling for a cash prize of $25,000. Kid Chef Eliana won Battle 4 of the series and moves on to the finale, which airs on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 9pm CDT.

The incredibly popular show with millions of viewers pits contestants against each other while trying to master ingredients revealed in a mystery basket. In Chopped Teen Tournament, there are four contestants in each battle with three rounds: appetizer, entrée, and dessert. Each contestant receives the same ingredients and are given 30 minutes to transform the ingredients into dishes presented to three celebrity chef judges. If the judges deem the dish unsatisfactory, the contestant is “chopped.” The winner of each battle in Chopped Teen Tournament advances to the grand finale on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 to compete for $25,000.

Eliana says, “I am thrilled that I won Battle 4 of the competition but more importantly, I made awesome new friends both on screen and off. The other teen chefs I competed with are crazy talented and I am grateful to have made it this far. The love and support from my family, school, and community have been overwhelming.”

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Eliana will have a public viewing party at Poseidon Restaurant, 2100 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, where she will host a meet and greet and book signing. The Asian restaurant boasts large screen televisions and four fun karaoke rooms. Owner “Jimmy” Zhao Li says, “We are honored to host Chef Eliana’s Chopped Finale viewing party and hope everyone enjoys watching Chopped here.” Poseidon’s PR Director, Carolyn Shelton, says, “We are so proud of young Chef Eliana and can’t wait to see her in the finale! Our whole restaurant is rooting for her.”

The accomplished young chef and cookbook author’s weekly radio show, “Let’s Get Cookin’,” is on New Orleans 102.3 FM WHIV (“We Honor Independent Voices”). She is currently featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not Kids Fun Facts and Silly Stories (Ripley Entertainment; September 2016) and Garvey’s Choice by award-winning children’s book author, Nikki Grimes (Wordsong; September 2016). Kid Chef Eliana attends New Orleans Center for Creative Arts where she is enrolled in the culinary arts program supported by the Emeril Lagasse Foundation.

Check out Kid Chef Eliana’s newest cookbook, Cool Kids Cook: Fresh & Fit!

ABOUT Kid Chef Eliana
16-year-old Award-Winning Chef, Cookbook Author, and Radio Show Host
CEO of Eliana Cooks!
National Food & Beverage Foundation Kids Ambassador
Crescent City Farmers Market Marketeer Ambassador
http://www.kidchefeliana.com
Twitter: @KidChefEliana
Facebook: ElianaCooksFanPage
Instagram: @KidChefEliana

Fragrance Company launches new film, Meet the Harmony

It’s not often you get a new brand, with new stores in places around the world like Los Angeles on Melrose (per Essential Home Magazine ), plus a new movie to support it. But with the Harmonist that’s exactly what you get.

Says FilmFest.com, “Bruno Aveillan shot ‘Meet the Harmony’ for the new perfume Brand The Harmonist… at Festival de Cannes 2016 which the company is attending for the first time. ‘Meet the Harmony’, tells the love encounter between a man and a woman who will be guided and inspired by an alchemist of senses, a creator of harmony: The Harmonist. It is set in sober and eternal City of Paris, magnified by an elegant black and white treatment, Bruno Aveillan offers us a contemporary fable, modern yet poetic, with subtle emotions which resonate to surrealism, through the magics of special effects.

The sound track was composed by french icon Bruno Coulais.

According to Yahoo Movies, at Cannes:

Kate Hudson, Heidi Klum, Common, Orlando Bloom and Karolina Kurkova started their night at the launch party for The Harmonist, a Paris-based fragrance line based on feng shui and inspired by the elements of water, wood, fire, earth and metal. The maison de parfum spared no expense for the bash, taking over the beach venue in front of the Hotel Martinez, which was transformed into a Harmonist-themed nightclub with music by Martin Solveig and an exclusive performance by Jason Derulo.

The Harmonist – theharmonist.com
Creation : Bruno Aveillan and Story Studio – storystudio.fr
Directed by Bruno Aveillan
Produced by Quad – quad.fr

Food Star Alton Brown & PopSci on his new Appearance Tour

Food Network Superstar and TASTE HALL OF FAME‘s Alton Brown has a new tour, and like his previous tour — The Edible Inevitable Tour — part of it is based on food and science.

Alton Brown’s first food hack (he prefers the term “hacking” over “inventing”) took place during season one of his Food Network show Good Eats, when he made a fish smoker out of a cardboard box. Naturally, since then he can count the staff of Popular Science Magazine a part of his large and loyal fan base.

He invited PopSci to his secret workshop, where they made carbonated chocolate ice cream in 10 seconds, used lights to cook a pizza in three minutes, and answered a few questions about his favorite hacks, affirming that everyone’s home has a lab (the kitchen!), and why it’s a good idea to take apart the lawnmower.

Mega Bake
If you’ve ever played with an EZ-Bake Oven, you’re familiar with the concept of cooking with the heat produced by a light. Alton’s Mega Bake takes the concept to a whole new level, using 54 one-thousand-watt lights to get the oven to over 600 degrees.

Brown used it on the Edible Inevitable tour to make pizzas in under three minutes, and showed us how he does it.

Viewers Choice Award Winners Announced at the TASTE AWARDS

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The TASTE AWARDS Committee is pleased to announced the winners of the Viewers Choice Categories, which were presented on Thursday, February 11th at the 7th Annual TASTE AWARDS in San Francisco.

 

VIEWER CHOICE AWARD WINNERS

 

BEST HOME CHEF IN A SERIES
WINNER: Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook

BEST INSTRUCTIONAL WEB SERIES
WINNER: Mind Over Munch

BEST FOOD OR DRINK RADIO BROADCAST
WINNER: Living Homegrown Podcast

BEST FASHION OR DESIGN: WEB PROGRAM OR VIDEO
WINNER: Fashion News Live

BEST COMEDY
WINNER: Dish It Out!

BEST FEATURE LENGTH FILM OR DOCUMENTARY
WINNER: CAFFEINATED

BEST SHORT FILM OR DOCUMENTARY
WINNER: Crafted

BEST MINI FILM OR DOCUMENTARY
WINNER: Flazéda by Pearl

BEST FOOD PROGRAM: WEB
WINNER: How To Cook That

BEST FOOD TRAVEL SERIES: WEB
WINNER: The Artisans of Italy

YouTube’s Mind Over Munch, Gemma, and Dish it Out scheduled to appear at the TASTE AWARDS

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YouTube stars and award winners & nominees Mind Over Munch, Gemma’s Bigger Bolder Baking, and Dish it Out! are scheduled to appear at the 7th Annual TASTE AWARDS.

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Mind Over Munch is an award winners in the “BEST HEALTH & FITNESS PROGRAM (Food & Diet)” category, as well as a Viewer’s Choice nominee for “BEST INSTRUCTIONAL WEB SERIES.”

Gemma Stafford

Gemma’s Bigger Bolder Baking is an Honoree Award Winner, for the “SPOTLIGHT AWARD.”

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Dish It Out!, a previous award winner, is also a nominee for the Viewer’s Choice categories, “BEST HOME CHEF IN A SERIES,” “BEST COMEDY,” and “BEST INSTRUCTIONAL WEB SERIES.”

The TASTE AWARDS take place on February 11th at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.

www.TheTasteAwards.com