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Viewers Choice Winners announced for 6th Annual TASTE AWARDS
Kara Birkenstock and crew
On a starry night in Hollywood, the Viewers Choice award category winners were announced at the Egyptian Theatre for the 6th Annual TASTE AWARDS. They joined the other talented award winners, honorees, and Hall of Famers this evening on the red carpet.
The celebrity presenters this evening included Alie and Georgia (Cooking Channel, Food Network), Bobby Bognar (History Channel, Bio Channel), Andres Izquieta (Esquire Network), Michelle Harris (ION Life Network), Chef Ashley James (Public Television, Four Seasons), Kara Birkenstock (Myx TV), and Jolene Sugarbaker (YouTube).
Viewers Choice Award winners were selected by thousands of fans voting online. They are:
BEST FOOD PROGRAM: WEB – Joy of Baking
BEST FOOD TRAVEL SERIES: WEB – Cooking for Dads
BEST HOME CHEF IN A SERIES – Joy of Baking
BEST FOOD OR DRINK RADIO BROADCAST – America’s Test Kitchen Radio
BEST FASHION OR DESIGN: WEB PROGRAM OR VIDEO – Fashion News Live
BEST COMEDY – Dish It Out!
BEST FEATURE-LENGTH FILM OR DOCUMENTARY – Chef
BEST ENTERTAINMENT NEWS SERIES – TELEVISION – E! News
BEST INSTRUCTIONAL WEB SERIES – Joy of Baking
BEST MINI FILM OR DOCUMENTARY – A Taste of Fate
For more information, visit www.TheTasteAwards.com
The V-MODA XS Boutique DJ Headphones will grace celebrity heads at the TASTE AWARDS
Honored by the prospect of receiving their own TASTE AWARD for OUTSTANDING TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION, V-MODA has decided to carry it forward by honoring other award winners as well. That is why for the 6th Annual TASTE AWARDS, both the winner and the nominees for the Craft audio category, “Best Music – Intro or Theme Music,” will receive a pair of V-MODA XS Boutique DJ Headphones. These headphones are also known as DJ Avicii’s Favorite Milano brand.
The TASTE AWARD recipients of XS units include: A Film About Coffee, Deconstructing Dinner, Jazzy Vegetarian, and Rhythm Abroad with Brittany Pierce.
Also receiving XS sets will be Honoree Award Winners, Doomsday and Joel Kefali, who produced Katy Perry’s innovative music video, featuring dancing food and crazy fashion, This is How We Do It.
The XS was released late in March 2015 and has already received Editor’s Choice Awards from Reviewed, Digital Trends, Tom’s Guide , SoundGuys and is recommended by USA TODAY and has 4 stars with CNET.
V-MODA’s products are designed in the fashion district of Milano, and appeal to fashionistas, DJs, audiophiles and frequent travelers as a superior option to other high-end headphones
SPECS:
- XS allows you “mind the gap” by minimizing the unsightly space between the headband and your head5+ years of R&D resulted in a superior fit, added comfort, grander sound and a compact profile
- Fashionable form-fitting design elevates your listening experience; discover why “the fit is the sound”
- Latest addition to the M-Class offers marquee sound signature characterized by its deep yet clean bass, vibrant mids, and ultra-extended clear and transparent highs
- Combination of steel and metal materials lives up to the military-level standards of the MIL-STD-810G testing guidelines
- Fully loaded with two Kevlar-reinforced microphone cables for universal smartphone compatibility and an exoskeleton carrying case
Nominees and Honorees Announced for 6th Annual TASTE AWARDS
The TASTE AWARDS Committee and TasteTV are pleased to announce this year’s Nominees and Honorees for the 6th Annual TASTE AWARDS.
All Finalist Nominees were voted upon by the members of the Academy of Media Tastemakers. Honoree Award Winners were selected by the TASTE AWARDS Committee. To view the full list, go to the site www.TheTasteAwards.com
In addition, Viewers Choice voting for selected categories has also begun. To vote, go to the site.
Selected Award Winners will be announced in a private reception in December in San Francisco. All winners will receive their awards on January 15th, 2015 at a Red Carpet Awards celebration in Hollywood. Lifetime Achievement Awards and other Special Awards will also be presented to valuable contributors to the industry.
This year’s Celebrity Presenters include P. Allen Smith (PBS, Syndicated stations), Alie & Georgia (Cooking Channel), Bobby Bognar (History), and more to be announced.
NEW EVENTS THIS YEAR:
– Taste Hall of Fame Dinner scheduled in Hollywood on January 14th
– Poolside Brunch in Beverly Hills on January 16th
– Tastemakers Summit & Panel
The TASTE AWARDS are the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, Online, and on Radio. 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, TLC, Discovery, Lifetime, E! Entertainment Television, PBS, NBC, ABC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Sony Pictures, Dreamworks, The History Channel, Bio, iHeart Radio and more.
Award Winner Profile: Food Wishes shares Secrets to Online Success
HE HOSTS AND PRODUCES “FOOD WISHES,”
HAS WON MULTIPLE TASTE AWARDS,
HAS MILLIONS OF VIEWERS AND BLOG READERS,
AND HAS EXPANDED HIS ONLINE VIDEO COMPANY TO COMPLETE PROFITABILITY
An Interview with “Food Wishes” CHEF JOHN MITZEWICH
QUESTION: John, what exactly is Food Wishes?
CHEF JOHN: Food Wishes is the name of my show on YouTube, which features more than 800 video recipes.
The concept is a show based on the “food wishes” of the viewers, as in, “I wish I could make a great pizza at home.”
Q: How did you come up with the name?
CJ: When I first started I worked with a few friends on a site called “Wish Upon a Stove.” When I went off on my own, I changed it to “Food Wishes.”
Q: How many recipes a week do you prepare?
CJ: I film 2 or 3 new video recipes every week.
Q: So, where do you get the ideas for the recipes?
CJ: The viewers’ own “food wishes!”
Q: Do you create them all, or do you use other recipe sources?
CJ: Some I create, some are inspired by things I see online, or viewers send in recipes.
Q: You were primarily on YouTube. Did you initially decide for this to be your main platform?
CJ: When I started, YouTube was the only video hosting site I actually knew about. But then I discovered the large food community there, and they discovered me, and that’s been the main platform since.
Q: How many viewers do you usually have on YouTube?
CJ: We get over 3 million views a month.
Q: Wow, any tips for aspiring YouTube stars?
CJ: Your content has to be entertaining, but it’s really all about quantity. You have to produce lots of content, like 2-3 videos a weeks for a couple years if you want to build a large audience.
Q: But now you are also on AllRecipes.com. How did that come about?
CJ: They approached me regarding a partnership, and it ended up being a perfect fit. We have the same missions: get people to discover the joys of cooking at home, provide them with all of the necessary (and fun) tools and inspiration to create great meals.
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The Sugar Lab’s 3D Sugar Printing System
INNOVATOR PROFILE: The Sugar Lab
Milestone
Winner of the 2014 Innovation Award by the TASTE AWARDS. Acquisition by 3D Systems. Press coverage in major media, as well as launch of Los Angeles studio space.
Founders or Inventors
Liz and Kyle von Hasseln, co-founders of The Sugar Lab.
Their background
Kyle and Liz both have backgrounds in molecular biology, but about 5 years ago they decided to transition to architecture, and graduated from SCI_arc with Masters of Architecture. SCI_arc makes it a point to embrace emerging technologies as design tools, and that institutional stance meant that they were exposed to a lot of cool technology during their time there, and were encouraged to use it in novel ways. Throughout graduate school both Kyle and Liz were fascinated by free form fabrication in general, and unorthodox 3D printing configurations and materials in particular. Their graduate thesis, although it had nothing to do with sugar, centered on the development of a novel fabrication system. Their shared curiosity for the range and utility of 3D printing definitely contributed to an interest in applying the technology to the genre of food.
Concept & Innovation
The Sugar Lab is a micro-design firm for 3D printed sugar. 3D printing transforms sugar into a structural, sculptural element that can interact with food on different terms. 3D printed sugar can be used to sweeten or to ornament, but it can also start to define the form of the food instead of the other way around, or even to support it structurally. For example, Kyle and Liz are very excited to be working right now with several talented cake artists at a well-known bakery in Hollywood. The goal is to design a four-tiered wedding cake with a 3D printed sugar cake-stand, plus 3D printed sugar-tiers supporting cake tiers. It will be a traditional cake silhouette in which sugar plays anything but a traditional role.
That’s an exciting part of 3D printing sugar — transforming sugar into a structural, sculptural medium that can start to define the form of the food instead of the other way around, and even to support it structurally.
Inspiration
It started about two years ago, when they were graduate students in architecture. Kyle and Liz were living in a tiny apartment in Echo Park (Los Angeles) with a correspondingly tiny outdoor kitchen. They didn’t have an oven, and when they realized that meant they couldn’t bake their friend Chelsea a cake for her birthday, it was decided to try to 3D print one instead. Eventually Kyle and Liz managed to print a simple cupcake topper that spelled out ‘Chelsea’ in cursive sugar. Chelsea loved it! After they graduated, they optimized the printing process and started The Sugar Lab.
Company URL http://www.the-sugar-lab.com/
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