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.

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

 

Nominees Announced on January 5th for 14th Annual TASTE AWARDS

The TASTE AWARDS Committee is pleased to announce that Finalist Nominees for the 14th Annual TASTE AWARDS will be announced on Thursday, January 5, 2023.  This announcement will also include the first round of Honorees, as well as the finalists for Viewers Choice Awards.

The TASTE AWARDS final awards will be presented in the first in-person awards ceremony since March 2020, scheduled to take place March 13, 2023 in Beverly Hills. Limited Early Bird Tickets for the event are now available.

Now in its 14th year, the annual TASTE AWARDS in Hollywood/Beverly Hills 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.

The 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, 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, Instagram/IGTV, Facebook, TikTok, 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

 

14th Annual TASTE AWARDS Final Entry Submissions Close November 2nd

(courtesy of Jolene Photo)

Final Nomination submissions for the 14th Annual Awards close Nov 2nd, 2022 for content first released between October 2021 and October 2022.

Nominations can be submitted via the ENTRY PAGE, in any of the following award categories:

 

CONTENT TOPICS

  • Food & Drink
  • Fashion & Design
  • Home Decor & Renov.
  • Travel & Adventure
  • Health & Fitness
  • Lifestyle
  • Outdoor Sports and Activity
  • Nature or Science
 CONTENT PLATFORMS

  • Television
  • Film
  • Online Video & Streaming
  • Radio
  • Live Events
  • Photography
  • Podcasts
  • Social Media (IG/FG/TikTok)
  • VR

The TASTE AWARDS in Hollywood/Beverly Hills 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...

Special awards category this year:

  • Best FILMED-AT-HOME AWARD CATEGORY – Out of appreciation for the creativity and genius, and need to improvise that this year’s works face, this year’s awards will also include a new award category for programs & series’ episodes that are normally produced in studio or on location and have segments now produced at home specifically due to COVID-19. (please note, programs that are normally produced in home studios and kitchens do not qualify for this category)

⇒TO ENTER⇐

The 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, 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, Instagram/IGTV, Facebook, TikTok, and more.