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.

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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)




Celebrity Chefs sometimes have Potty Mouths?


WannabeTVChef has a funny response to the big deal about Mario Batali’s swearing at a $1000/plate dinner.

His take:

NEWSFLASH: People in the food service industry cuss . . . a lot.

Hmmm, not surprising if you’ve ever spent time in their kitchens for 12 hours. If WannaBeTVChef wants to be a TV Chef, he needs to brush up on the colorful language.

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The Food Network Magazine is actually not too bad

Okay, so we have to admit that we were very, very suprised by the first issue of Food Network Magazine. The cover is not really to our liking, and of course it’s filled with their celebrity chefs, of course Paula Deen has some recipes in it that look good but might make your heart stop beating, of course there’s some elements of Ladies Home Journal (sic) in it, but frankly…. it’s actually pretty good.

They’ve added just enough ‘news’ and ‘finds’ and ‘tips’ and behind the scenes content that it actually makes interesting reading for some who probably doesn’t watch too much of the Food Network any more. And that says a lot. It means that the Food Network understands they’ve got some new opportunities that if handled well, can really pay off in the end.

That being said, we’ll wait and see if Issue #2 is as good as #1.

Rachel Ray, look out, there’s a new foodie magazine in town

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The NEW MEDIA TASTEMAKERS SUMMIT arrives on May 2nd


THE NEW MEDIA TASTEMAKERS SUMMIT for May 2nd

A first-of-its-kind gathering of 300 of the most important Digital Media, Traditional Media, Online Video and Web producers, platforms and startups specifically focused on the lucrative & highly influential Lifestyle categories of: FOOD & WINE, FASHION & DESIGN, AND REGIONAL/CITY SITES

More information is at www.NewMediaTasteMakers.com

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