TASTE AWARDS Pre-Announce Viewers Choice Winners and Additional Honorees

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to pre-announce Award Winners in the Viewers Choice categories, as well as additional Special Achievement Award Honorees, for this season.

Now in its 16th year, the TASTE AWARDS are 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.

Among the Winners and Honorees are well known celebrity and program names such as Andrew Zimmern, Christopher Kimball, Lidia Bastianich, Harry Hamlin, Lorna Maseko, and Edward Delling-Williams.  Also included are new Hall of Fame Inductees Alfonso Ribeiro, Benny Blanco, Debbie Harry, Esteban Mercer, George Clinton, Jackie Alpers, Joy Bauer, Lisa-Renee Ramirez, Marga Reyes – Sopitas de mi Ecuador, Maria Lawton, Matty Matheson, Olivier Rousteing / Pierre Balmain (France), Rita Lobo (Brazil), Roy Yamaguchi, Tellus Works, Tia Lowry, To Dine For with Kate Sullivan, Toni Tipton-Martin, Valerie Bertinelli and Zarela Martínez. 

Additional Special Achievement Award Winners (Honorees) announced shortly include for the Anthony Bourdain Lifetime Achievement Award, The Andrew Zimmern Discovery Award, and the Breakout Foodies of the Year Award.

SEE THE FULL WINNER & NOMINEE LIST HERE

 

 

Now in its sixteenth year, 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 10, 2025 in Beverly Hills at the WGA Theater.

Portions of this event will be filmed for broadcast on various PBS-affiliate public television stations across the United States starting in spring 2025. Tickets now available.

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, Sony Pictures, DreamWorks, TLC, Discovery Communications, Lifetime Network, E! Entertainment Television, PBS, APT, Create TV, NBC, ABC, BBC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, Vice, LiveWell Network, Esquire Network, Bio/FYI Channel, iHeart Radio, HBO, MyxTV, Small Screen Network, StyleHaul, PTA, Zagat, Mode Media, WatchMojo, Netflix, Amazon Prime, AMC International, Lifetime Network, Buzzed, Vox Media, Gusto TV, MyCleo TV, Recipe.TV, FNL, the Africa Channel, Tastemade, BuzzFeed, Allen Media, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and more.

TASTE AWARDS Pre-Announce Selected Winners and March 10th Date in Beverly Hills

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to pre-announce Award Winners in selected categories, as well as additional Special Achievement Award Honorees, for its 16th Anniversary Year

Among the Winners and Honorees are well known celebrity and program names such as Andrew Zimmern, Christopher Kimball, Lidia Bastianich, Harry Hamlin, Lorna Maseko, and Edward Delling-Williams.  Also included are new Hall of Fame Inductees Alfonso Ribeiro, Benny Blanco, Debbie Harry, Esteban Mercer, George Clinton, Jackie Alpers, Joy Bauer, Lisa-Renee Ramirez, Marga Reyes – Sopitas de mi Ecuador, Maria Lawton, Matty Matheson, Olivier Rousteing / Pierre Balmain (France), Rita Lobo (Brazil), Roy Yamaguchi, Tellus Works, Tia Lowry, To Dine For with Kate Sullivan, Toni Tipton-Martin, Valerie Bertinelli and Zarela Martínez. 

Additional Special Achievement Award Winners (Honorees) will be announced shortly, including for the Anthony Bourdain Lifetime Achievement Award, The Andrew Zimmern Discovery Award, and the Bob Saget Award for Best Comedy or Humor.

SEE THE FULL WINNER & NOMINEE LIST HERE

 

Viewer’s Choice Voting for selected categories is open now through February 7th here.

 

 

Now in its sixteenth year, 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 10, 2025 in Beverly Hills at the WGA Theater.

Portions of this event will be filmed for broadcast on various PBS-affiliate public television stations across the United States starting in spring 2025. Tickets now available.

Winners of additional selected award categories will also be pre-announced in mid-February 2025.

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, Sony Pictures, DreamWorks, TLC, Discovery Communications, Lifetime Network, E! Entertainment Television, PBS, APT, Create TV, NBC, ABC, BBC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, Vice, LiveWell Network, Esquire Network, Bio/FYI Channel, iHeart Radio, HBO, MyxTV, Small Screen Network, StyleHaul, PTA, Zagat, Mode Media, WatchMojo, Netflix, Amazon Prime, AMC International, Lifetime Network, Buzzed, Vox Media, Gusto TV, MyCleo TV, Recipe.TV, FNL, the Africa Channel, Tastemade, BuzzFeed, Allen Media, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and more.

Watch the TASTE AWARDS 2024 Television Broadcast on PBS on Demand

Now in its 15th year, the annual TASTE AWARDS is televised across the United States in 2024.

This star-studded television special is broadcast exclusively on select public television stations nationwide, and is also viewable on the PBS Video on Demand app.

Award winners who accepted their awards in person included well-known celebrities and TV hosts such as Steve Raichlen, Maria Loi, Esteban Mercer, and Catherine Fulvio, authors and broadcasters such as Shari Bayer, fashionistas and foodies such as NIZIE, FNL Network, Nadia Mejia, and the Dining Divas, personalities such at NatGeo’s Christian Cooper, as well as network and studio executives and producers such as Lisa-Renee Ramirez (Recipe.TV/Allen Media) and Chris Knight (Gusto TV)..

This season’s ceremony included host

Michelle Harris (Alive and Well TV, syndicated nationwide), plus Award Presenters Margaret McSweeney (host and producer, Kitchen Chat), Marcel Vigneron (Top Chef, restaurateur, TV host), and Bita and Beata (Modern Persian Food). The 2024 Ambassadors and Miss TASTE AWARDS were Angie de Togni (from Queen in the Kitchen) and Katie McSweeney (from Kitchen Chat).

WATCH ON THE PBS APP

Red Carpet Photos and Fashion from the 15th Annual TASTE AWARDS

FNL Network

The 15th annual TASTE AWARDS Red Carpet was the epitome of style and pizazz in Beverly Hills!

Award winners who accepted their awards in person included well-known celebrities and TV hosts such as Steve Raichlen, Maria Loi, Esteban Mercer, and Catherine Fulvio, authors and broadcasters such as Shari Bayer, fashionistas and foodies such as NIZIE, FNL Network, Nadia Mejia, and the Dining Divas, personalities such at NatGeo’s Christian Cooper, as well as network and studio executives and producers such as Lisa-Renee Ramirez(Recipe.TV/Allen Media) and Chris Knight (Gusto TV).

This season’s ceremony included host Michelle Harris (Alive and Well TV, syndicated nationwide), plus Award Presenters Margaret McSweeney (host and producer, Kitchen Chat), Marcel Vigneron (Top Chef, restaurateur, TV host), and Bita and Beata (Modern Persian Food). The 2024 Ambassadors and Miss TASTE AWARDS were Angie de Togni (from Queen in the Kitchen) and Katie McSweeney (from Kitchen Chat).

Take a look at the entire Photo Gallery from that night HERE!

Nadia Mejia of Kitchen Crafted

 

15th Annual TASTE AWARDS Announce March 11 Awards Show date in Beverly Hills

“V is for Vino”

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to announce that the 15th Anniversary Red Carpet Awards Show, Reception and Ceremony will take place on March 11, 2024 in its home at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, the second 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, May and June 2024.

Awards Show Tickets can be reserved here.

For over a decade and a half, 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.

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