Nominees Announced for 2nd Annual TASTY Awards for best food, fashion, and home lifestyle programs on TV, in Film, and Online

SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 9 –The 2nd Annual TASTY AWARDS, the premier awards show celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, and Home Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, and Online, is pleased to announce the Nominees for the upcoming awards show in Hollywood.

Jamie Oliver, Tyler Florence, Average Betty, Anthony Bourdain, Top Chef, Project Runway, Style.com and Guy Fieri lead the awards finalists with several nominations each. Hosted by food and travel television star Zane Lamprey of Travel Channel and HD Net fame, the two-hour red carpet event takes place at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on January 13th, as well as filmed for later broadcast.

The show features a star-studded lineup of food and fashion TV celebrities, including Tanya Holland (Cooking Channel, Food Nework), Leslie Sbrocco (PBS), Nathan Lyon (Fit TV, Discovery Health, PBS, Food Network), and Bobby Bognar (History Channel), along with newcomers such as Candice Kumai (Lifetime, Bravo’s Top Chef), Brian Boitano (Food Network), Daniel Green (ShopNBC), Luciene Salomone (WE tv), Amy Paffrath (E! Entertainment Television), Jeannie Mai (Style Network), Kevin Roberts (TLC), Peter Ishkhans (Style Network), Aida Mollenkamp (Food Nework, Cooking Channel), and more.

Special Achievement Awards have been announced for Niecy Nash, Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali, Joan Rivers, Tyra Banks, Ryan Seacrest, Cat Cora, Heidi Klum, Martha Stewart, and Gail Simmons, among others.

The viewer appetite and response to food and style programs has surged over the last decade, making them some of the highest watched and sponsored video content. The TASTY AWARDS spotlight the year’s best achievements in food, fashion, and home lifestyle programs on television, in film, and on the web.

The following are several of the nominees and categories for the 2011 TASTY Awards. To participate in the Viewers Choice voting starting November 15th, or for a full list of nominees, please go to www.TastyAwards.com, as well as get updates on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/TastyAwards

Best Drink or Beverage Program: Television
Drink Up with Darryl Robinson
The Winemakers
Drinking Made Easy with Zane Lamprey
Wine & Dine with Mastro

Best Drink or Beverage Program: Web
12 Second Cocktails
Art of the Drink
Raising the Bar with Jamie Boudreau
Mixology
Thirsty Girl TV
Wine Library TV

Best Food Program: Television
America’s Test Kitchen
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
Good Eats
No Reservations
Top Chef
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

Best Food Program: Web
Average Betty
CHOW.com
Aarti Parti
The Culinary Institute of America
Working Class Foodies
Jamie Oliver Recipes

Best Food Travel Series: Television
Avec Eric (Eric Ripert)
Bizarre Foods
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
The Great Food Truck Race
No Reservations
Throwdown With Bobby Flay

Best Food Travel Series: Web
CMN Travels-Culinary Media Network
Working Class Foodies
The Hungry Pedaler
Vegan Hotspot
Without Borders
Savoring the Best of World Flavors: World Culinary Arts Series

Best Reality Series: Food or Drink
The Great Food Truck Race
The Next Food Network Star
Top Chef
Iron Chef America
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Top Chef Masters

Best Food or Drink Video Podcast
Avec Eric (Eric Ripert)
Average Betty
Epicurious
Farmers’ Market Gourmet
Simply Ming
Working Class Foodies

Best Home Chef in a Series
Average Betty
Working Class Foodies
What Would Brian Boitano Make?
Food Wishes
Barefoot Contessa
Down Home with the Neelys

Best Chef in a Series
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Throwdown With Bobby Flay
Mexico – One Plate at a Time
Good Eats
Barefoot Contessa
Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef

Best Fashion or Design Program : Television
America’s Next Top Model
Kimora, Life in the Fab Lane
Project Runway
The Rachel Zoe Project
What Not To Wear

Best Fashion or Design Program : Web
Cool Hunting
Fashion TV
Ford Models TV
Style.com
Vogue TV
Fashion Network

Best Reality Series: Fashion or Design
America’s Next Top Model
What Not to Wear
Kimora, Life in the Fab Lane
Project Runway
The Rachel Zoe Project
Say Yes to the Dress

Best Fashion or Design Video Podcast
Ford Models TV
Style.com
ThreadBanger, D.I.Y. Fashion & Style
Vogue TV
Gucci
The Fashion Network

Best Home Decor and Design Program : Television
Home Made Simple
Curb Appeal: The Block
HGTV Green Home 2010
HGTV Design Star
Divine Design

Best Mobile / Apps / Out of Home Series
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Working Class Foodies
Top Chef
Food Network Nighttime iPad App
Gourmet Live iPad App
New York Times iPad App

Best City or Regional Program
A Taste of New York
About.com
Check Please, Bay Area
Check Please, Chicago
dineLA
Savory Cities

Best Branded Program
Cooking.com
Cuisinart
H&M Fashion Video
Kraft Cooking School
Luxury Explorer TV
Target Frugalista

Best Newspaper or Magazine Program
Bon Appetit
Cook’s Country
Food and Wine Magazine
LA Times
New York Times Food
New York Times the Minimalist with Mark Bittman

Best New Series
MasterChef with Gordon Ramsay
Top Chef: Just Desserts
FoodCrafters
The Great Food Truck Race
Cupcake Wars
Private Chefs of Beverly Hills

Best Single Topic Series
Cake Boss
Simply Ming
Mexico – One Plate at a Time
Cupcake Wars
Vegan a go-go
Top Chef: Just Desserts

Best Comedy Series
Bizarre Foods
The Dish
Jolene Sugarbaker: The Trailer Park Cooking Show
Tiki Bar TV
Drinking Made Easy
Average Betty

Best Critic or Review Series
Check Please, Bay Area
Savory Cities
The Naked Wine Show
The Cooks Plate
Average Betty
Wine Library TV

Best Green or Organic Program
Vegan Hotspot
Cooking Up a Story
HGTV Green Home 2010
Vegan a go-go
Chefs A’Field
Fresh Food Fast with Emeril Lagasse

Best Film or Documentary – Food or Fashion
Eat Pray Love
Soul Kitchen
Kings of Pastry
Beer Wars
Haute Couture: A Fashion Documentary
Fresh the Movie

A limited quantity of TASTY Awards event tickets are now available on a first come basis. For details, go to www.TastyAwards.com


TasteTV Celebrity Chef Updates

The Winners at The TASTY AWARDS

The Award Winners were announced on January 14th at 1st Annual TASTY AWARDS, the most exciting and prestigious event ever to celebrate food and fashion programs on TV, in Film, and on the Web.

What a fantastic evening!

See the the full list of Winners for the Awards at
www.TastyAwards.com

Hosted by food and travel television star Zane Lamprey of “Three Sheets” fame (Scripps Fine Living Network), the two-hour red carpet event took place at the Sundance Kabuki theatre in San Francisco on January 14th, with an AfterParty at the New People building. The Awards program will air on stations nationwide in February 2010, reaching millions of households and on Hulu.com.

To see the Full List of Nominees and Winners, and other information, please go to www.TastyAwards.com, as well as get updates on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/TastyAwards

TasteTV Events include:

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The Award Winners were announced on January 14th at 1st Annual TASTY AWARDS, the most exciting and prestigious event ever to celebrate food and fashion programs on TV, in Film, and on the Web.

What a fantastic evening!

See the the full list of Winners for the Awards at
www.TastyAwards.com

Hosted by food and travel television star Zane Lamprey of “Three Sheets” fame (Scripps Fine Living Network), the two-hour red carpet event took place at the Sundance Kabuki theatre in San Francisco on January 14th, with an AfterParty at the New People building. The Awards program will air on stations nationwide in February 2010, reaching millions of households and on Hulu.com.

To see the Full List of Nominees and Winners, and other information, please go to www.TastyAwards.com, as well as get updates on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/TastyAwards

TasteTV Events include:

This blog from the contributors, producers and correspondents at TasteTV at TasteTV.com. technorati tags:, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Bourdain, Top Chef, Project Runway Lead Nominations for 2010 TASTY AWARDS SHOW

TasteTV today announced the nominees and categories for the most exciting and prestigious event ever to celebrate food and fashion programs on television, in film, and online, the 2010 “TASTY AWARDS.”

Anthony Bourdain, Top Chef, Project Runway, Cake Boss and Guy Fieri lead the awards finalists with several nominations each.

Hosted by food and travel television star Zane Lamprey of “Three Sheets” fame, the two-hour red carpet event takes place at the Sundance Kabuki theatre in San Francisco on January 14th. The program will air on stations nationwide in February 2010, reaching millions of households.

The show features a star-studded lineup of food and fashion TV celebrities, including Tyler Florence, Joanne Weir, G. Garvin, Tanya Holland, Leslie Sbrocco, Gary Vaynerchuk, Marcy Smothers, Novella Carpenter, Anita Chu, Dominique Crenn, Brian Solis, Marissa Churchill, and more.


Special Achievement Awards have been announced for Anthony Bourdain, Martin Yan, Paul Prudhomme, YouTube, Alton Brown, Jacque Pepin, Meryl Streep, Giada De Laurentiis, and Tim Gunn, among others.

The viewer appetite and response to food and style programs has surged over recent years, making them some of the highest watched video content. The TASTY AWARDS spotlight the year’s best achievements in food and fashion programs on television, in film, and on the web.

To participate in the Viewers Choice voting, or for a full list of nominees, please go towww.TastyAwards.com, as well as get updates on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/TastyAwards.

TasteTV Events include:

This blog from the contributors, producers and correspondents at TasteTV at TasteTV.com. technorati tags:, , , , , , , , ,, , , ,

TasteTV Celebrity Chef Updates

How Successful Are TV Food Chef Contestants?

Apparently your future success as a television career competition winner really various. Maura Dieringer of USA Today provides an interesting follow-up on the careers of various reality food/fashion/design competition show winners, and it’s not all peaches and cream.

Here are three examples out of several that USA Today gave:

HGTV Design Star, Season 2 (2007): Kim Myles

Myles, known for her use of unconventional design on a tight budget, is in her third season of Myles of Style. She was a hairdresser in New York before the show and earned an associate’s degree in theater in Bakersfield, Calif., her hometown. She lives in Los Angeles and has been a guest designer on several HGTV shows


Hell’s Kitchen, Season 2 (2006): Heather West

With a reality-show victory under her belt, West is working on two books while shooting the pilot of her own show, Eat This. As her prize from the show, West was the senior chef at Terra Rossa in the Red Rock Casino Resort in Las Vegas for a year. She graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 2003 and is chef Gordon Ramsay’s sous chef on this season of Hell’s Kitchen


The Next Food Network Star, Season 3 (2007): Amy Finley

Finley completed her six episodes of The Gourmet Next Door for Food Network, but decided not to sign on for a second season. In February 2008 she became the first columnist for Bon Appetit‘s new column, Family Style, and stayed for about a year. Then she left the magazine, moving to France with her family to write a regional cook book. She remains out of the public eye.


On the other hand, none of them can be called losers. Most in general of the food types are or have started their own restaurants, which many had wanted to do before the shows but couldn’t. So for many it has been career building, even if that career isn’t on television.

Wear more Vegetables

PETA is working on multiple strategies and ad campaigns to get people to treat animals more humanely, stop wearing fur, and possibly…. expand their wardrobes.

Expect to see these items in your local farmers markets. (celebrity models not included)