Atlanta’s Viva Tequila Festival was honored at this year’s TASTE AWARDS (aka, the TASTY Awards). Often called the “Oscars of Food, Fashion and Lifestyle Media,” this edition of the Taste Awards highlighted Viva Tequila Mexico Experience under the category of OUTSTANDING CULINARY & TRAVEL EXPERIENCE. This year, as for many awards shows, the Taste Awards had a virtual broadcast that reached viewers across the globe, from Japan and South Africa to England, Poland and Italy, and from New Zealand to Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
Hosted by wine, beer and spirits purveyor Juan Bonilla, dubbed “Mr. Tequila,” the Viva Tequila Festival Mexico Experience tour takes participants on an exclusive trip down the historic timeline of Mexico’s Tequila Trail, providing in-depth understanding of the different regions that cultivate Tequila, the history of this iconic Mexican spirit and its importance in local, national and international economies.
The Viva Tequila Festival Mexico Experience tour visits several cities, including Tlaquepaque, Tequila, Atotonilco and Guadalajara to provide a local perspective of the manufacturing of Tequila. Participants are able to mingle with locals and admire and shop for unique Mexican works of art, both folk and fine, all while sipping limited edition craft Tequilas from distilleries that embody traditional to modern styles of manufacturing.
Highlights includes visits to the Fortaleza and Don Nacho craft distilleries as well as hacienda of José Cuervo, where participants bottle their own Reserva de la Familia, and enjoy a tasting in the property’s private cellar and then dinner at the Tienda de Raya, both opened exclusively for Viva Tequila Festival.
Tour participants are treated to stays in centuries-old haciendas that were once home to some of Mexico’s wealthiest people. They can enjoy a morning horseback ride at the historic, 17th century Hacienda Labor de Rivera or disconnect and relax with a spa treatment at Hacienda El Carmen Hotel & Spa.
Other winners at this year’s Taste Awards included recipients of the new ANDREW ZIMMERN DISCOVERY AWARD. This award honors the mission to discover new cultures, flavors or talent. The inaugural honorees of this new award are noted chefs Andrew Zimmern and Tyler Florence.
Other well-known personalities who won or were honored at the Taste Awards include Ming Tsai, Selena Gomez, Idris Elba, Dylan Dreyer, Chef John Folse and Lidi Bastianich, along with Bravo’s Top Chef, America’s Test Kitchen, NHK, the Africa Channel and New Soul Kitchen.
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, 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, APT, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime and more. See them at www.TheTasteAwards.com.
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The TASTE AWARDS announced this year’s Award Winners and additional Honorees for its 12th Anniversary Year during a stylish and exciting virtual broadcast that reached viewers across the globe, from Japan and England to Poland, Italy and South Africa, and from New Zealand to Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
Winners include the new ANDREW ZIMMERN DISCOVERY AWARD. This award honors the mission to discover new cultures, new flavors, or new talent. The inaugural honorees of this new award are Andrew Zimmern and Tyler Florence.
Other well known personalities who won or were honored include Ming Tsai, Selena Gomez, Idris Elba, Dylan Dreyer, Chef John Folse, and Lidi Bastianich, along with Bravo’s Top Chef, America’s Test Kitchen, NHK, the Africa Channel, and New Soul Kitchen. See all of the winners and additional honorees below.
Some participating Celebrity awards presenters include Michelle Harris (Alive and Well TV), Kim Estes (Emmy nominated actor), Jernard Wells (Food Network, Cleo TV), Mickela Mallozzi (PBS, CreateTV), Danielle Nottingham (NBC), Margaret McSweeney (Kitchen Chat), Chris Knight (Gusto TV), Andrea Feczko, Joanne Weir, Jazz and Jake Smollett, the Food Nanny (IG).
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, 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, APT, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and more. See them at http://www.TheTasteAwards.com.
12th ANNUAL TASTE AWARDS WINNERS
Best Chef in a Series
Bravo’s Top Chef: What Would Tom Do? [Tom Colicchio]”
Confucius Was a Foodie”
Cook Like a Chef
Eating In with Lidia: Back to Basics”
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places, Season Three
Lidia Celebrates America: Return of the Artisans
New Soul Kitchen with Chef Jernard (WINNER)
A Taste of Ireland: Ballyknocken Cookery School Episode Title: “Barnyard Bash”
Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with Andrew Zimmern (WINNER)
Wolf it Down, with Tyler Florence
Best Food Program – Television
A Taste of Ireland: Ballyknocken Cookery School
America’s Test Kitchen — “Childhood Favorites for Grown Ups”
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
Confucius Was a Foodie (WINNER)
Flavor of Poland
Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places, Season Three
Lidia Celebrates America: Return of the Artisans
Moveable Feast: On the Road in Cambridge, UK
My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas
New Soul Kitchen with Chef Jernard
Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with Andrew Zimmern
Best Food Program – Online and Streaming
America’s Test Kitchen: Boot Camp (WINNER)
Bravo’s Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen (WINNER)
Cooks Thyme with Chef Tobias Cooks
Eat Travel Rock Productions Reel Featuring Beatnik Chicago
How To Cook That by Ann Reardon
Lorna With A Pinch Of Salt
New Soul Kitchen with Chef Jernard
The Trailer Park Cooking Show With Jolene Sugarbaker
The Wiseguy Kitchen – The Historic Kapok Tree
The Worlds Oldest Restaurant: 300 Year Old Sobrino de Botín
Best Food Travel Series – Online & Streaming
A Taste of Scotland
Bad Ideas
Cup of Joe
Eat Travel Rock TV
Kitchen Chat
The Wiseguy Kitchen – The Historic Kapok Tree
The Worlds Oldest Restaurant: 300 Year Old Sobrino de Botín (WINNER)
Best Food Travel Series – Television
A Taste of Ireland: Ballyknocken Cookery School
A Taste of Scotland
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
Confucius Was a Foodie
Flavor of Poland
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places, Season Three
Lens of Culture
Lidia Celebrates America: Return of the Artisans (WINNER)
Moveable Feast: On the Road in Cambridge, UK
My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas
Best Reality Series
Cup of Joe (WINNER)
Family Style, Season 2
I’ll Have What You’re Having (WINNER)
Just Eats with Chef JJ
New Day New Chef : Support and Feed Edition
Tastes Like Home – Bringing a recipe from Lusk in Ireland to Sydney Australia (WINNER)
The Wiseguy Kitchen – The Historic Kapok Tree
What’s On the Menu with Michelle Ullmann
Best Drink or Beverage Program
Agave Road Trip
Beer Sessions Radio
Dads Drinking Bourbon
Eat Travel Rock TV
Family Style, Season 2
Hard Core
Lorna With A Pinch Of Salt
The 3 Julias on 30A Television
The Speakeasy (WINNER)
Wine Soundtrack
Wines To Find Podcast
Best Branded Program, Native Content, Video, or Advertisement Presented by R&B Celllars
BOSS EYEWEAR | Sharpen your focus |Starring Henry Cavill
Eat Travel Rock TV (WINNER)
Exquisit Schnaps and fine Vinegar in Austria/Europe
Family Style, Season 2
Fresh Up Your Life
Get Away for a Day with Allyshia Renay: International Edition!
Kitchenside Talks
The Wiseguy Kitchen: The Historic Kapok Tree
Travelers by Nature
Best Green or Organic Program, Series or Film
Fresh Up Your Life (WINNER)
MÁS Sano, MÁS Rico
Nardelli al Natural (All natural Nardelli)
New Day New Chef
New Day New Chef : Support and Feed Edition
Best New Series
Agave Road Trip (WINNER)
Catherine’s Farmhouse Kitchen: Quarantine Edition
Chrissy’s Court
Flavor of Poland
Lens of Culture
Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini (WINNER)
New Day New Chef
Selena + Chef
The Worlds Oldest Restaurant: 300 Year Old Sobrino de Botín
Valcooks Kitchen
Wines To Find Podcast
Best Single Topic Series, Presented by Gowan’s Cider
Agave Road Trip
America’s Test Kitchen — “Cooking For One” Series (WINNER)
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Confucius Was a Foodie
Dads Drinking Bourbon
How To Cook That by Ann Reardon
Opening Soon
Pit Bulls & Parolees
The Speakeasy
Wines To Find Podcast
Best Nature or Science Program, Film or Documentary
The Aquarium (WINNER)
Eick on a Hike: Best Day Hikes in Lassen Volcanic National Park
NASA’s Incredible Discovery Machine: The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope (WINNER)
Best Health & Fitness Program, Film or Documentary
Eick on a Hike: Best Day Hikes in Lassen Volcanic National Park (WINNER)
Iron Sharpens Iron
New Day New Chef
New Day New Chef : Support and Feed Edition
The Art of Natural Healing
Best Food or Drink Podcast
Afros and Knives Podcast (WINNER)
Agave Road Trip
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Cooks Thyme with Chef Tobias Cooks
Dads Drinking Bourbon
Meat and Three
S.A.L.T. Lab Radio
Sips, Suds, & Smokes
The Bite Goes On
The Grape Nation
The Speakeasy (WINNER)
Wine Road Podcast
Wine Soundtrack
Wines To Find Podcast
Best Travel Program
A Taste of Scotland
Adventure Horizon (Gorizont Priklyucheniy)
Confucius Was a Foodie
Flavor of Poland
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
Lens of Culture (WINNER)
Los favoritos de Margarita Carrillo
Los Petersen en la Patagonia (Cooking the Patagonia with the Petersen’s)
Moveable Feast: On the Road in Cambridge, UK
Somebody Feed Phil
Tastes Like Home – Bringing a recipe from Kildare, Ireland to Jeju in South Korea
Weekends With Yankee: Deep Roots
Best City or Regional Program
Weekends With Yankee: Deep Roots (WINNER)
Whats On The Menu With Michelle Ullmann, Pierogies Factory
Wine Road Podcast
Best Ethnic Lifestyle Series, Program or Film
Confucius Was a Foodie (WINNER)
Felicitas Parrillera (Felicitas’ BBQ)
Get Away for a Day with Allyshia Renay: International Edition!
Lens of Culture
Los favoritos de Margarita Carrillo
Los Fogones Tradicionales: MÉXICO (Ancient fires: Mexico)
New Soul Kitchen with Chef Jernard
Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with Andrew Zimmern (WINNER)
Best International Program
A Taste of Ireland: Ballyknocken Cookery School
Christmas with Bonacini
Confucius Was a Foodie (WINNER)
Cook Like a Chef
Crikey! It’s the Irwins: Bindi’s Wedding
Felicitas Parrillera (Felicitas’ BBQ)
Flavor of Poland
Great Getaways: Cologne, Germany
Los Fogones Tradicionales: MÉXICO (Ancient fires: Mexico)
Los Petersen en la Patagonia (Cooking the Patagonia with the Petersen’s)
Maestros del Ceviche (Ceviche Masters)
Parrilla a la mexicana
Tastes Like Home – Bringing a recipe from Kildare, Ireland to Jeju in South Korea
Watts on the Grill
Best Foreign Language Program, Series or Film
Exquisit Schnaps and fine Vinegar in Austria/Europe
Los favoritos de Margarita Carrillo
Los Fogones Tradicionales: MÉXICO (Ancient fires: Mexico)
Los Petersen en la Patagonia (Cooking the Patagonia with the Petersen’s) (WINNER)
MÁS Sano, MÁS Rico
Nardelli al Natural (All natural Nardelli)
Parrilla a la mexicana
Supera Esto (Chef’s showdown)
Wine Crush (Vas-y Coupe!)
Wine Soundtrack
BEST MINI FILM OR DOCUMENTARY (5-10 MINUTES)
541: A Place For The Community
Eat Travel Rock Productions Reel Featuring Beatnik Chicago
Eick on a Hike: Best Day Hikes in Lassen Volcanic National Park
Exquisit Schnaps and fine Vinegar in Austria/Europe
Master Artcraft Perfumer
The Biodynamical Way
The Worlds Oldest Restaurant: 300 Year Old Sobrino de Botín (WINNER)
BEST SHORT FILM OR DOCUMENTARY (10-40 MINUTES)
Chronicles of Gnarnia: The Rex Chadwick Story
Get Away for a Day with Allyshia Renay: International Edition!
In the Desert of Eternity
Italy In Bocca (WINNER)
NO SINGLE ORIGIN
QUẬN 13
Russia through the Eyes of Foreigners. While Moscow was the Capital
BEST FEATURE-LENGTH FILM OR DOCUMENTARY
Alaska Long Hunters
Lidia Celebrates America: Return of the Artisans
Weed & Wine (WINNER)
Wine Crush (Vas-y Coupe!)
BEST FASHION FILM
Alex
Behind the Curtain (WINNER)
fashion inspiration nature
Human Library
BEST ACTION SPORTS, ADVENTURE, OR OUTDOORS FILM
Eick on a Hike: Best Day Hikes in Lassen Volcanic National Park
Elba vs. Block (WINNER)
Iron Sharpens Iron
Life Size Toys
SKRRT with Offset
Best Social Media Short Video
America’s Test Kitchen — “Cooking For One” Series (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
Eat Travel Rock Productions Reel Featuring Beatnik Chicago
Fresh Up Your Life
Koo 80th Birthday Video Campaign
The Food Nanny
Valcooks Kitchen
Best Lifestyle Podcast
S.A.L.T. Lab Radio
Sips, Suds, & Smokes
The Swirl Suite Podcast
Wine Road Podcast (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
Best Home Decor and Design Program
Barkitecture
Living By Design
La recicladora de muebles (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
Murder House Flip
Best Comedy or Humor
Bad Ideas
Chrissy’s Court
Gayme Show
Gone Mental with Lior
Kirby Jenner
Memory Hole
Nice One!
Nikki Fre$h
Punk’d
Somebody Feed Phil
The 3 Julias on 30A Television
The CORONA DIALOGUES
The Trailer Park Cooking Show With Jolene Sugarbaker (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
What’s On the Menu with Michelle Ullmann
Best Filmed at Home Episodes or Film
America’s Test Kitchen: Boot Camp
Catherine’s Farmhouse Kitchen: Quarantine Edition
Crikey! It’s the Irwins: Bindi’s Wedding
Eat Travel Rock TV
Family Style, Season 2
Italy In Bocca
Meat and Three
Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini
New Day New Chef : Support and Feed Edition (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
Opening Soon
Selena + Chef
The Speakeasy
Best Series Pilot
Catherine’s Farmhouse Kitchen: Quarantine Edition
Cook Like a Chef
Hard Core
ILLVILLE
Living By Design
Mind Exchange Music Presents: Layne Marie Williams The Adventures of Ms Glitch Live Film Score
Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini
New Day New Chef (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
Wolf it Down, with Tyler Florence
Best Instructional Web Series
America’s Test Kitchen — “Cooking For One” Series
America’s Test Kitchen: Boot Camp
Chef Schulz’s “How To”(VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
Cooking Issues
Fresh Up Your Life
The Trailer Park Cooking Show With Jolene Sugarbaker
Best Food or Drink Radio Broadcast
All in the Industry
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Sips, Suds, & Smokes (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
Take Away Only
The Grape Nation
The Swirl Suite Podcast
Wine Road Podcast
Best Home Chef in a Series
Cooks Thyme with Chef Tobias Cooks
Living By Design
Selena + Chef (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
Tastes Like Home – Bringing a recipe from Lusk in Ireland to Sydney Australia
The 3 Julias on 30A Television
The Trailer Park Cooking Show With Jolene Sugarbaker
Valcooks Kitchen
ADDITIONAL SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD HONOREES ANNOUNCED
The TASTE AWARDS Show is coming to a screen near you, and viewable on Facebook and on the TASTE AWARDS website**.
Come watch it and see who wins, celebrate some of the most exciting and creative food, fashion and lifestyle programs, videos, films, series, podcasts and radio.
This year’s TASTE AWARDS all digital and all virtual awards show features a star-studded lineup of food and fashion TV, Film and Video celebrities, including winners, nominees and presenters. Some participating Celebrity awards presenters include Michelle Harris (Alive and Well TV), Kim Estes (Emmy nominated actor), Jernard Wells (Food Network, Cleo TV), Mickela Mallozzi (PBS, CreateTV), Danielle Nottingham (NBC), Margaret McSweeney (Kitchen Chat), Chris Knight (Gusto TV), Andrea Feczko, Joanne Weir, Jazz and Jake Smollett, the Food Nanny (IG).
** As with most awards shows this year (Critics Choice, SAG, WGA, the Gothams, Emmys, Grammys, BET, Music Video Awards, etc), the 2021 TASTE AWARDS in Beverly Hills will also be virtual this year.
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.
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WATCH THIS GREAT VIDEO FROM the Media Tastemakers Summit on
WHY FOOD SERIES & TRAVEL SERIES ARE HOT PROPERTIES
A Panel disucssion featuring Joanne Weir, Host, Cookbook Author, Restaurateur & Celebrity Chef, “Plates & Places (National Television Series)”. Mickela Mallozzi, Host & Executive Producer, “Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi” (National Television Series)
Theme: Why Both Food and Travel Series are Hotter than Ever, and How We Succeeded with Ours.
Joanne Weir: A 4th-generation professional cook and James Beard award-winning cookbook author, Joanne Weir spent 5 years cooking at Chez Panisse after receiving a Master Chef Diploma with Madeleine Kamman.
Joanne is a James Beard award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, and host and Executive Producer for several award-winning PBS Television series. Her newest 26-part TV series filmed in Italy, Greece, Spain, Morocco and France is called PLATES & PLACES and airs on Public Television and CREATE TV nationwide.
Joanne has written 17 cookbooks. Her most recent is a food memoir “Kitchen Gypsy:Recipes and Storiesfrom a Lifelong Romance with Food”, and features aforeword by Alice Waters. She is co-owner of Copita, a tequileria & restaurant in Sausalito, California.
Joanne writes for several national publications and travels and teaches extensively around the world as well as in her San Francisco studio kitchen.
Web: www.joanneweir.com, Social Media: @ChefJoanneWeir
Mickela Mallozzi: Mickela Mallozzi is the four-time Emmy® Award-winning Host and Executive Producer of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, a travel series highlighting the diversity of dance which airs on PBS member stations nationwide and on Amazon Prime Video globally. A professional dancer and trained musician, Mickela decided to start a journey around the world, taking her camera with her to follow dance in the lives of everyday people wherever she went. From re-discovering her family’s heritage in Southern Italy to dancing tango on the main stage in Buenos Aires, the series covers Mickela’s adventures as she experiences the world, one dance at a time. She has been featured in The New York Times, O Magazine, AFAR, Travel Channel, Dance Magazine, Forbes, Condé Nast Traveler, and more, and she has performed on various television shows including Sesame Street and The Doctor Oz Show. Since the global pandemic, Mickela has been hosting a weekly #BareFeetLIVE series on Facebook and Instagram to stay connected with the world through dance and music. And stay tuned for a 2-part special of Bare Feetcoming to PBS stations in February, featuring Carnival in the Guadeloupe Islands!
Website: http://travelbarefeet.com, Facebook: Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi
Instagram: @travelbarefeet
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WATCH THIS GREAT VIDEO FROM the Media Tastemakers Summit on
BUILDING A MEDIA TASTEMAKER EMPIRE
They talk about how Gusto TV created its network of food-centric programming, how it stands out, and the keys to its success.
Featuring Chris Knight, President & CEO, Gusto TV / Gusto Worldwide Media. Moderated by Margaret McSweeney of Kitchen Chat.
https://youtu.be/y2CZwEOLu94
ABOUT CHRIS KNIGHT: Television industry veteran and epicurean Chris Knight, is the President and CEO of Gusto Worldwide Media — an innovative media company that produces, distributes, and broadcasts inspiring culinary programming. In 2013, Knight independently launched the food and lifestyle channel Gusto TV in Canada. After three short years on air, Bell Media licensed the Canadian Gusto TV brand in a ground-breaking partnership. Since then, Knight has launched Gusto TV on multiple international streaming platforms throughout the globe and has won several awards.
Accolades include International Gourmand World Cookbook awards, several prestigious James Beard awards, Taste Awards and a 2020 induction into the Taste Awards Hall of Fame. Knight continues to deliver a diverse mix of engaging and inspiring cooking programming that resonates globally.
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The newest trailer for the 12th Annual TASTE AWARDS has dropped!
The TASTE AWARDS are the highest awards for creators, producers, hosts, and directors of Lifestyle Programs, Series, Shows & Cinema.
The TASTE AWARDS are the premier broadcast awards show celebrating the year’s best achievements in Food, Fashion, Health, Travel, and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, in Online and Streaming Video, and in Apps, Radio, Podcasts and Photography.